Publications & Documents

Scholarship Highlights

CLEAR Student Associates write short papers exploring topics for the 2013 Festival of Legal Learning's Environmental Law Symposium

Eighteen Carolina Law students have written for the 2013 Environmental Law Symposium, with papers focusing on water issues and rights, regulations, energy and transportation. The individual papers may be found on the Environmental Law Project website.

Thesis Concerning Analysis of State Disaster Recovery Plans

Dylan Sandler, working with CLEAR and the Center of Excellence for Homeland Security and Disaster Solutions, has proposed a framework for analyzing whether state Disaster Planning documents are adequate. Read the thesis.

The Impact of Law on Private Sector Climate Change Adaptation

August, 2012 - Read the policy white paper summarizing the workshop and conclusions from the workshop.

CLEAR commissions report on the role of non-profits in long term disaster recovery.

• Jeffrey Stys, Strategic Decision Associates, Non-profit Involvement in Disaster Response and Recovery

CLEAR Research Fellow Analyzes the Potential for Parametric Insurance Products to Serve as a Model for a Proposed U.S. Catastrophe Risk Consortium and as a Catalyst for Disaster Mitigation and Climate Adaptation

• Financial Adaptation Through Parametric Insurance Products: Utilizing the Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility as a Model for a Proposed United States National Catastrophe Risk Consortium
  Daniel E. Peterson

CLEAR Research Fellows Prepare Case Study Analyzing Best Methods of Insuring Against Avoided Deforestation Offset reversal

• Ken Allinson, Matthew Dunand, P. J. Puryear, and Jeremy Tarr (White Paper)