Rethinking Social Contracts: Building Resilience in a Changing Climate

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Rethinking Social Contracts: Building Resilience in a Changing Climate

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Social contracts play an important role in defining the reciprocal rights, obligations, and responsibilities between states and citizens. Climate change is creating new challenges for both states and citizens, inevitably forcing a rethinking of existing and evolving social contracts. In particular, the social arrangements that enhance the well-being and security of both present and future generations are likely to undergo dramatic transformations in response to ecosystem changes, more extreme...

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2009-12-01

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Karen O'Brien / Bronwyn Hayward / Fikret Berkes

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Ecology and Society

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http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol14/iss2/art12/

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adaptation / climate change / New Zealand / northern Canada / Norway / resilience / social contracts. / Biology (General) / Ecology

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