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Climate Change Comes to Insurance

This opinion piece explains the risks climate change poses to insurers, both as underwriters and as investors. It argues that it is necessary to align incentives in the insurance industry to prevent widespread defaults that would leave policyholders unprotected and examine areas where risks are distributed inequitably.
Stephanie Jones
December 3, 2021
Adaptation as Risk ManagementJournal ArticlePrivate GovernanceRisk Management

Ecosystem Services and Federal Public Lands: A Quiet Revolution in Natural Resources Management

This article traces the policy evolution that embedded consideration of ecosystem services in lands management, assesses why and how that happened and what it means for the future of lands management, and argues that land management agencies' emphasis on the flow of ecosystem services from public lands to off-site human…
October 17, 2019
EssayPrivate GovernanceRisk Management

Private Governance and the New Private Advocacy

This article argues that an exclusive focus on public governance and advocacy will miss opportunities to affect large aspects of the modern regulatory landscape and suggests that private advocacy and private governance will play a growing role in environmental law and policy as the federal role in environmental protection shrinks.
September 1, 2017