Resilience thinking – an approach for understanding and managing change – is increasingly central to climate change adaptation law and policy. Yet the influence of adaptation law and policy on the distribution of climate impacts is often overlooked in studies of socio-ecological resilience to climate change. This article demonstrates how environmental justice scholarship helps to address this gap in the literature relating to adaptation law and resilience. Drawing on existing literature, the article identifies four principles to promote resilience and justice through climate adaptation laws. Climate adaptation laws must (i) prepare for, and respond to, change; (ii) address the distributive effects of climate change and adaptation; (iii) promote participation in adaptation processes; and (iv) cross sectors and scales. Each criterion can be implemented in part through existing legal processes, but might also be further supported by incremental law reform. Developing both resilience and justice dimensions will enhance the effectiveness of adaptation laws in addressing climate impacts.

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增强气候适应法的弹性和公正性

弹性思维——一种理解和管理变化的方法——越来越成为气候变化适应法律和政策的核心。然而，适应法律和政策对气候影响分布的影响在研究气候变化的社会生态恢复力时往往被忽视。本文展示了环境正义奖学金如何帮助解决与适应法和复原力相关的文献中的这一空白。本文借鉴现有文献，确定了通过气候适应法促进复原力和正义的四项原则。气候适应法律必须 (i) 为变化做好准备并做出反应；(ii) 解决气候变化和适应的分配效应；(iii) 促进参与适应进程；(iv) 跨部门和跨规模。每个标准都可以通过现有的法律程序部分实施，但也可以通过渐进的法律改革得到进一步支持。发展复原力和正义维度将提高适应法在应对气候影响方面的有效性。