[PDF] Climate Change And Disappearing Island States eBook

Author : Jenny Grote Stoutenburg
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 24,96 MB
Release : 2015-07-28
Category : Law
ISBN : 9004303014

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Several low-lying atoll island states are at risk of losing their entire territory due to climate change-induced sea level rise. In Disappearing Island States in International Law, Jenny Grote Stoutenburg examines the most relevant and pressing international legal questions facing threatened island states: at which point would a sovereign state disappear? Who could make that determination? Which legal status would its citizens have? What would happen to the state’s maritime entitlements and its international rights and obligations? Does international law protect the international legal personality of states that lose their effective statehood for reasons beyond their control? In answering these questions, the book goes to the root of a fundamental problem of international law: the nature of statehood.

Author : Jon Barnett
Publisher : Earthscan
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 10,78 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1849774897

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Small Island Developing States are often depicted as being among the most vulnerable of all places to the effects of climate change, and they are a cause c?l?bre of many involved in climate science, politics and the media. Yet while small island developing states are much talked about, the production of both scientific knowledge and policies to protect the rights of these nations and their people has been remarkably slow.This book is the first to apply a critical approach to climate change science and policy processes in the South Pacific region. It shows how groups within politically and scientifically powerful countries appropriate the issue of island vulnerability in ways that do not do justice to the lives of island people. It argues that the ways in which islands and their inhabitants are represented in climate science and politics seldom leads to meaningful responses to assist them to adapt to climate change. Throughout, the authors focus on the hitherto largely ignored social impacts of climate change, and demonstrate that adaptation and mitigation policies cannot be effective without understanding the social systems and values of island societies.

Author : Michael B. Gerrard
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 661 pages
File Size : 45,33 MB
Release : 2013-01-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1107025761

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This book addresses legal issues of rising seas endangering the habitability and existence of island nations in the Pacific and Indian oceans.

Author : Lilian Yamamoto
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 14,41 MB
Release : 2013-10-25
Category : Law
ISBN : 3642381863

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Atoll Island States exist on top of what is perceived to be one of the planet's most vulnerable ecosystems: atolls. It has been predicted that an increase in the pace of sea level rise brought about by increasing greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere will cause them to disappear, forcing their inhabitants to migrate. The present book represents a multidisciplinary legal and engineering perspective on this problem, challenging some common misconceptions regarding atolls and their vulnerability to sea-level rise. Coral islands have survived past changes in sea levels, and it is the survival of coral reefs what will be crucial for their continued existence. These islands are important for their inhabitants as they represent not only their ancestral agricultural lands and heritage, but also a source of revenue through the exploitation of the maritime areas associated with them. However, even if faced with extreme climate change, it could theoretically be possible for the richer Atoll Island States to engineer ways to prevent their main islands from disappearing, though sadly not all will have the required financial resources to do so. As islands become progressively uninhabitable their residents will be forced to settle in foreign lands, and could become stateless if the Atoll Island State ceases to be recognized as a sovereign country. However, rather than tackling this problem by entering into lengthy negotiations over new treaties, more practical solutions, encompassing bilateral negotiations or the possibility of acquiring small new territories, should be explored. This would make it possible for Atoll Island States in the future to keep some sort of international sovereign personality, which could benefit the descendents of its present day inhabitants.

Author : Mara Alin Brinker
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 73 pages
File Size : 35,20 MB
Release : 2020-12-21
Category : Law
ISBN : 334631720X

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Master's Thesis from the year 2020 in the subject Law - European and International Law, Intellectual Properties, grade: 1,2, University of Heidelberg (Max-Planck-Institut für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht), course: Master of International Law - Investment, Trade and Arbitration, language: English, abstract: What we only know from films and history, like the history of Atlantis from the ancient times, will become reality in the nearest future. In the South Pacific, one of the greatest inundations in the world's history threats including the loss of territory for various islands and, in the worst case, the loss of a whole Island State - of the low-lying coral atoll island State Kiribati. The question raises if there does not yet exist neither a migration plan nor an answer to the question, what happens with the State Kiribati when it will be inundated. The cause for that phenomenon is one of the very present problems in the world's discussion: the Climate Change. "Climate Change is one of the greatest challenges of our time, and climate-effected hazards have direct and irreversible consequences on people, property, business, financial systems, and state institutions worldwide." However, the phenomenon of the Climate Change is well-known nowadays, and material for discussion, the International Law offers only a few approaches and rarely solutions for the urgent threat. In this particular research project, it will be tried to resolve the question, how to define a State without territory if the territory will be inundated.

Author : William B. Cronin
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 28,49 MB
Release : 2005-06-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801874352

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An appendix documents the many small islands that have dropped entirely from view since the seventeenth century.

Author : Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 755 pages
File Size : 12,14 MB
Release : 2022-04-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781009157971

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The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is the leading international body for assessing the science related to climate change. It provides policymakers with regular assessments of the scientific basis of human-induced climate change, its impacts and future risks, and options for adaptation and mitigation. This IPCC Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate is the most comprehensive and up-to-date assessment of the observed and projected changes to the ocean and cryosphere and their associated impacts and risks, with a focus on resilience, risk management response options, and adaptation measures, considering both their potential and limitations. It brings together knowledge on physical and biogeochemical changes, the interplay with ecosystem changes, and the implications for human communities. It serves policymakers, decision makers, stakeholders, and all interested parties with unbiased, up-to-date, policy-relevant information. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Author : McQuillin Murphy
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 47,89 MB
Release : 2017
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This thesis examines the reactions of small island states to the effects of climate change. Rising sea levels threaten to render many low-lying coastal environments uninhabitable and may even submerge entire states. Those states will have their population, society, and sovereignty jeopardized. The strategies by which states respond to the existential threat posed by rising seas fall into two overarching courses of action: adaptation and abandonment. This thesis profiles the responses of two states, the Maldives and Kiribati, to the threats posed by climate change. The Maldives uses primarily adaptation strategies and Kiribati uses primarily abandonment strategies. Small island states are some of the first places to be fundamentally changed by climate change, but certainly will not be the last. Understanding the reactions of those places, as well as the looming crises of sovereignty and human rights created by the submergence of states, is critical for the international community.