%0 Book
%A Frederick von Paepcke
%D 2014
%C Berlin, Germany
%I Peter Lang Verlag
%@ 0531-7312
%@ 9783653052749
%T Statehood in Times of Climate Change
%B Impacts of Sea Level Rise on the Concept of States
%R 10.3726/978-3-653-05274-9
%U https://www.peterlang.com/document/1048996
%X 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.
%K Völkerrecht, Klimawandel, Staatsbegriff, Umweltvölkerrecht
%G English