TY  - BOOK
AU  - Frederick von Paepcke
PY  - 2014
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 0531-7312
SN  - 9783653052749
TI  - Statehood in Times of Climate Change
T2  - Impacts of Sea Level Rise on the Concept of States
DO  - 10.3726/978-3-653-05274-9
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1048996
N2  - 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.
KW  - Völkerrecht, Klimawandel, Staatsbegriff, Umweltvölkerrecht
LA  - English
ER  -