Abstract
Abstract. Accelerating and more comprehensive legislation and litigation indicate a
new significance of law in recent years within climate change politics.
However, this development has been scarcely reflected upon in German-language geographical research on climate change adaptation, which
primarily focuses on climate adaptation politics and policies. In order to
illuminate these issues, this article engages with the political and legal
scientific debates on juridification; reflects these in the context of
climate adaptation; and traces the processes of juridification of climate
policies in the German context from a historical perspective. Intersecting
with insights from legal geography, this contribution introduces the concept of „Legal Ecologies of Climate Change Adaptation“ as a novel and legally nuanced perspective. Within human geographic climate adaptation research, this perspective opens up new theoretical and conceptual interests, empirical domains, and possibilities for interdisciplinary collaboration.
Subject
Earth-Surface Processes,Anthropology,Geography, Planning and Development,Global and Planetary Change