Statehood in Times of Climate Change (Instant Digital Access Code Only)

Edition : 1st, 2014
Author(s) : Frederick von Paepcke

Statehood in Times of Climate Change (Instant Digital Access Code Only)
- ISBN: 9783631659007
- SKU: 257249V
- Format: VitalSource eBook/ePub
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Climate change is a most complex, global challenge for the international community and for international law. The tremendous negotiation efforts in the last decades did not result in effective mitigation measures, leading to a rising need for adaptation. Amidst a myriad of challenges, some small island states face an existential threat of losing their state territory due to sea level rise, a situation without precedence. What happens to their statehood when they lose a constituent criterion of a state? This thesis argues for a claim to a new state territory. Due to the existence of such a claim, island states continue to exist even when their territory is inundated, as the lack of a territory is not necessarily permanent.