A Role for Interstate Compacts in Coastal Resilience and Climate Change Mitigation

摘要

As the history of the EMAC attests, the legal structure of interstate compacts has played a heroic role in protecting human lives and property from disasters. It is very likely that this same legal structure can be employed in a financial context, both to protect whole coastal communities from disasters caused by extreme weather events spawned by climate change and to rebuild their core economies the day after disaster strikes.