People or Property: Legal Contradictions, Climate Resettlement, and the View from Shifting Ground (Environmental Politics and Theory)

Acknowledgements
Contents
Authorship
About the Authors
List of Figures
Part I Conceptualizing Property and Its Contradictions: A Challenge for Climate Justice
1 Pulling at the Thread
	Property Law and the Social Creation of Space
	Four Contradictions of Property and Law
	How to Read This Book
	References
2 Property Law and Its Contradictions
	References
Part II Proof of Harm
3 Market Orientation as an Environmental Hazard for Resettling Communities
	Introduction
	Community Resettlement as a Real Estate Transaction
	Individuation and Limitations on Receiving Community Engagement
	Out of the Kettle of Coastal Flooding and into the Fire of Predatory Inclusion
	Conclusion
	References
4 Flood Buyout Relocations and Community Action
	Introduction
	Vacant Lots
	The Political Ecology of Success
	Six Ways to Frame What a Buyout “Community” Is Anyway
		Neighborhood That Emerged Out of Historical Necessity
		Neighborhoods That Should Not Have Been There in the First Place
		Relatively Affordable Places to House More Socially Vulnerable Populations
		Diffused and Ambiguously Bounded Social Networks with Impacts Beyond
		Spaces with Constrained Choice
		Experiences and Attachments to Place
	From Housing Counselors to Community-Led Buyouts
	A Predetermined Redevelopment Strategy
	A Case for Healing and Memory
	Conclusion
	References
5 Displacing a Right to Act Communally Within Community Relocation
	Introduction
	Legal Definitions of Community
	Undermining Community Action While Administering Community Resettlement Funds
	Consequences of Redefining Community
	Conclusions
	References
6 Precarious Possessors and “the Right to (Rebuilding) the City”
	Introduction: A Right to Rebuilding the City
	Precarious Possessors: Diverse Categories of Possession/Dispossession
	Disaster Experiences for Renters
	Precarious Possession and Citizenship Status
	Renters and Retreat: Current Policy
	Discussion and Conclusion: A Study in Remembering
	References
7 Interrogating “Just Compensation” and Flexibility: Details on the Inadequacy (and Importance) of Voluntary Buyouts for Relocation in Alaska
	Introduction
	Buyouts in Alaska
	What Is Just Compensation in Voluntary Buyouts?
	Flexible Infrastructure and Climate Change: Just Compensation as Repair
	New Infrastructure Technologies Are Not Enough
	Conclusion: From One House to Regional Solutions
	References
Part III The Legal Framework
8 A Primer of Laws, Legal Concepts, and Tools That Structure Relocation and Novel Ways of Utilizing the Law
	Land Use, Building Codes, and Zoning as Hazard Mitigation
		Using and Better Understanding Land Use, Building Codes, and Zoning
	Restricting Development
	Takings Jurisprudence
		Novel Uses of Takings Jurisprudence
	Eminent Domain
	Public Trust and Public Necessity
	Alternatives to Individual Property Exchange as a Relocation Solution
		Existing Communal Relocation Mechanisms
		Community Land Trusts
		Community Development Corporations and Community Housing Development Organizations
		Community Right-to-Buy
		Hazard Mitigation, Adaptation, and Resilience Grant Funding
	Conclusion: Considering Repair as a Legal Solution
	References
9 Discretion and the Roles People Play in Interpreting and Applying the Law
	Regulatory Mechanisms
	Bureaucratic Discretion
	Administrative Evil
	Can Bureaucratic Discretion Be Used in Service of Community Desires?
	Conclusion
	References
10 Concluding Thoughts
	Reference
Correction to: People or Property
	Correction to:  A. Jerolleman et al., People or Property, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-36872-1
References
Index