Threatened island nations : legal implications of rising seas and a changing climate / / edited by Michael B. Gerrard, Gregory E. Wannier.
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| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | xix, 639 p., [12] p. of plates :; ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Part I: Introduction.
- Sea level rise in a changing climate / Mary-Elena Carr, Madeleine Rubenstein, Alice Graff, Diego Villareal
- Part II: Sovereignty and territorial concerns.
- When do states disappear?---thresholds of effective statehood and the continued recognition of "Deterritorialized" island states / Jenny Grote Stoutenburg
- The nation ex-situ / Maxine Burkett
- Introducing the Law of the Sea and the legal implications of rising sea levels / Ann Powers
- Options to secure maritime jurisdictional claims in the face of global sea level rise / Clive Schofield & David Freestone
- Sea level rise and maritime zones: preserving the maritime entitlements of 'disappearing' states / Rosemary Rayfuse
- Part III: Resettlement protections and proposed solutions.
- Human rights and climate change: reflections on international legal issues and potential policy relevance / Siobhan McInerney-Lankford
- Refugee and human rights protections for climate migrants in the international system / Michele Klein Solomon & Koko Warner
- 'In the face of looming catastrophe:' a treaty for climate change displaced persons and its discontents / David Hodgkinson & Lucy Young
- The national immigration policy options: limits and potential / Katrina Wyman
- Domestic law for resettlement of persons displaced by climate change / Leslie Stein
- Part IV: Establishing accountability.
- Could a small island successfully sue a big emitter? pursuing a legal theory and a venue for climate justice / Jacob Werksman
- Making good the loss: an assessment of the loss and damage mechanism under the UNFCCC process / Ilona Millar, Catherine Gascoigne & Elizabeth Caldwell
- Ocean acidification: international legal avenues under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea / Dean Bialek
- Securing planetary life sources for future generations: legal actions deriving from the ancient sovereign trust obligation / Mary Christina Wood, Stephen Leonard, Nicola Peart & Daniel Bart
- Transboundary climate challenge to coal: one small step against dirty energy, one giant leap for climate justice / Maketo Robert, Leonito Bacalando, Jasper Teulings, Kristin Casper, Jan Jan Rytr & Kristina Abova.