Land Use Law and Climate Change
In Oregon's Sixth Climate Assessment (Erica Fleishman, ed., OCCRI 2023), https://doi.org/10.5399/osu/1161.
Posted: 3 Aug 2023 Last revised: 3 Dec 2024
Date Written: January 01, 2023
Abstract
Oregon’s land-use system provides a pathway to ensure that the state’s land uses are responsive to climate change. Oregon has also undertaken innovative land-use law reform that partially integrates the state’s climate goals and land-use laws. However, we find that, although Oregon is a national leader in many aspects of sustainable land use, full integration of climate science and equity considerations into state and local land-use plans and actions would better align Oregon’s land-use system with the current and foreseeable effects of climate change and is necessary to support the following four state climate goals: reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, maintaining and increasing carbon sequestration, increasing community resilience to climate-related risks, and more equitably distributing environmental benefits and burdens.
Keywords: climate change, land use law, land use planning, housing law, urban settlements, urban sprawl, climate mitigation, climate adaptation, climate assessment
JEL Classification: I28, I31, I3, R11, R12, R14, R38, R48
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