People or Property

Alessandra Jerolleman is Associate Professor of Emergency Management, Jacksonville State University, USA.Elizabeth Marino is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Sustainability, Oregon State University, USA.Nathan Jessee is Postdoctoral Environmental Fellow at Princeton University's High Meadows Environmental Institute, USA.Liz Koslov is Assistant Professor in the Department of Urban Planning and the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at UCLA, USA.Chantel Comardelle, Jean Charles Choctaw Nation, Tribal Secretary and Curator.Melissa Villarreal is a PhD candidate in Sociology at the University of Colorado (CU) Boulder, USA.Daniel de Vries is Associate Professor in Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.Simon Manda is Lecturer in International Development at the University of Leeds, UK.

• Part I: Conceptualizing Property and Its Contradictions: A Challenge for Climate Justice.- Chapter 1: Pulling at the Thread.- Chapter 2: Property Law and Its Contradictions.- Part II: Proof of Harm.- Chapter 3: Market Orientation as an Environmental Hazard for Resettling Communities.- Chapter 4: Flood Buyout Relocations and Community Action.- Chapter 5: Displacing a Right to Act Communally within Community Relocation.- Chapter 6: Precarious Possessors and “the Right to (rebuilding) the City”.- Chapter 7: Interrogating “Just Compensation” and Flexibility: Details on the Inadequacy (and Importance) of Voluntary Buyouts for Relocation in Alaska.- Part III: The Legal Framework.- Chapter 8: A Primer of Laws, Legal Concepts, and Tools that Structure Relocation.- Chapter 9: Discretion and the Roles People Play in Interpreting and Applying the Law.- Chapter 10: Concluding Thoughts.