Threatened island nations
Subtitle: legal implications of rising seas and a changing climate
By: edited by Michael B. Gerrard, Gregory E. Wannier
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 639
ISBN-13: 9781107025769
Subjects: Climatic changes; Sea level; Islands; Law and legislation; Legal status, laws; Environmental refugees; Liability for climatic change damages
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part I: Introduction.; title: Sea level rise in a changing climate / Mary-Elena Carr, Madeleine Rubenstein, Alice Graff, Diego Villareal; title: Part II: Sovereignty and territorial concerns.; title: When do states disappear?; title: thresholds of effective statehood and the continued recognition of "Deterritorialized" island states / Jenny Grote Stoutenburg; title: The nation ex-situ / Maxine Burkett; title: Introducing the Law of the Sea and the legal implications of rising sea levels / Ann Powers; title: Options to secure maritime jurisdictional claims in the face of global sea level rise / Clive Schofield & David Freestone; title: Sea level rise and maritime zones: preserving the maritime entitlements of 'disappearing' states / Rosemary Rayfuse; title: Part III: Resettlement protections and proposed solutions.; title: Human rights and climate change: reflections on international legal issues and potential policy relevance / Siobhan McInerney-Lankford; title: Refugee and human rights protections for climate migrants in the international system / Michele Klein Solomon & Koko Warner; title: 'In the face of looming catastrophe:' a treaty for climate change displaced persons and its discontents / David Hodgkinson & Lucy Young; title: The national immigration policy options: limits and potential / Katrina Wyman; title: Domestic law for resettlement of persons displaced by climate change / Leslie Stein; title: Part IV: Establishing accountability.; title: Could a small island successfully sue a big emitter? pursuing a legal theory and a venue for climate justice / Jacob Werksman; title: Making good the loss: an assessment of the loss and damage mechanism under the UNFCCC process / Ilona Millar, Catherine Gascoigne & Elizabeth Caldwell; title: Ocean acidification: international legal avenues under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea / Dean Bialek; title: 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; title: 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 Abová