Climate Change, Property Rights, and Resource Governance: Emerging Implications For USG Policies and Programming

In both climate change adaptation and mitigation, contentious struggles for access and control of resources may turn violent unless stakeholders from the local to the international scale engage in open and transparent processes to negotiate new rules of access to land and other natural resources. Dispute resolution must go hand-in-hand with policies to restructure both statutory and customary tenure. National and international policy makers are beginning to explore the place of property rights and resource tenure in the discussions of climate change adaptation and mitigation strategies. Final: March 2011
Release Date: Tuesday, March 1, 2011File:  Climate Change, Property Rights, and Resource Governance: Emerging Implications For USG Policies and Programming