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“The Order is Rapidly Fadin.”1 Can Property Survive Climate Change?
Mick Strack
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DOI:10.17265/1934-7359/2026.05.002
National School of Surveying, University of Otago, Dunedin 9054, New Zealand
This paper considers the attitudinal and legal responses that must be faced when land is no longer suitable for occupation. Environmental changes (for example from climate change effects) will require a rethink about how we use and occupy land. Local and central governments have a large stake in hazard management; local government guides and approves development, identifies hazard zones, and significantly is usually pressured to provide compensation for property loss and damage. But proprietors are increasingly called upon to accept the impermanence of some land and therefore the corresponding vulnerability of their property rights. This paper primarily references New Zealand examples of land subject to climate hazard and various responses. It concludes that there is a disconnect between the expectations of permanence of property and the evidence of the impermanence of land.
Property, managed retreat, climate change, compensation.
Mick Strack. (2026). “The Order is Rapidly Fadin.”1 Can Property Survive Climate Change?, Journal of Civil Engineering and Architecture, May 2026, Vol. 20, No. 5, 179-185.
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