Linda Shi: Rethinking the governance of property can help communities adapt to climate change
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Linda Shi co-authored a blog and commentary paper on how property shapes planning for equitable climate adaptation.
She shared a summary on LinkedIn: “Property systems constrain adaptation because they're static, fragmentary, and commodified; Recognizing and supporting existing plural property models (CLTs, HOAs, ROCs, co-ops, leases, Indigenous land holding) is a starting point; Building on alternative models and innovating on property rights is essential for equitable, restorative, transformative climate adaptation.”
The paper that informs the blog argues “that dominant American property regimes fundamentally constrain attempts to plan for and achieve socially just and ecologically reparative adaptation.”
Read the full Brookings Institution blog here, and the Planning Theory & Practice commentary paper here.
