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标题：A Local Solution for Climate Change: The Climate Adaptation Board
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作者：Carl L. Zimmerman
期刊名称：Sea Grant Law & Policy Journal
印刷版ISSN：1947-3982
电子版ISSN：1947-3990
出版年度：2012
卷号：5
期号：1
页码：41-58
出版社：National Sea Grant Law Center
摘要：Climate change will impact coastal water resources like wetlands and watercourses, and tidally influenced areas in Connecticut because of sea level rise and potential weather pattern changes.The impacts will occur across a variety of temporal and spatial scales. Climate change adaptation isa multi- faceted political, legal, and land use issue that willpotentially change the character of many communities. It is also a thorny governance problem because of conflicting jurisdictions, limited natural resources, and changing land uses.Existing governance entities that conduct natural resource governance have jurisdictional overlap, do not match the scale of the necessary climate adaptation,orare not organized to handlerapid or variable rates of climate change onset. Potential governance solutions should incorporate the "home rule" tradition in Connecticutand New England. The authors propose a new governance entity called the Climate Adaptation Board that emphasizes the advantages of municipallevelgovernance for climate change adaptation. It is modeled after the unique Municipal Inland Wetland Agencieswhich arevolunteer governance entities that regulate inland wetlands and watercourses within the towns of Connecticut