scholarly journals Small-island States and Low-lying Coastal Areas Especially Vulnerable to Climate, Global Warming, and Sea-level Changes

1993 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 364-365
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
Global Warming ◽  
Sea Level ◽  
Coastal Areas ◽  
Small Island ◽  
Sea Level Changes ◽  
Island States ◽  
Small Island States ◽  
And Sea Level

Introductory Remarks by Patrícia Galvão Teles

2020 ◽  
Vol 114 ◽  
pp. 385-385
Author(s):  
Patrícia Galvão Teles
Keyword(s):  
Sea Level Rise ◽  
Sea Level ◽  
Law Of The Sea ◽  
Small Island ◽  
Island States ◽  
Legal Questions ◽  
Small Island States ◽  
The Law

Sea-level rise is accelerating globally. Small island states are particularly affected by sea-level rise, as are other coastal states. In light of this situation, important legal questions arise in relation to the law of the sea.

scholarly journals Securing the Limits of Large Ocean States in the Pacific: Defining Baselines Limits and Boundaries amidst Changing Coastlines and Sea Level Rise

Geosciences ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (9) ◽  
pp. 394
Author(s):  
Leonardo Bernard ◽  
Michael Petterson ◽  
Clive Schofield ◽  
Stuart Kaye
Keyword(s):  
Sea Level Rise ◽  
Sea Level ◽  
Small Island ◽  
Pacific Island ◽  
Potential Response ◽  
Response Options ◽  
Island States ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Pacific Island States ◽  
And Sea Level

The Pacific Island States and Territories are traditionally described as ‘small island’ nations. However, they are also ‘large ocean’ nations with jurisdiction over substantial maritime spaces stretching to at least 200 nautical miles. The article addresses issues related to baselines along the coast on which these broad maritime claims depend. The article then examines geodynamic considerations coupled with sea and land level projections in the Pacific leading to an assessment of the vulnerability or resilience of atolls in particular. The article then discusses potential implications for the coastlines and baselines of the Pacific Island States and Territories, the limits of their maritime entitlements and both delimited and undelimited maritime boundaries. Potential response options, prospects, and concluding thoughts are then offered.

Implementing a New Regime of Stable Maritime Zones to Ensure the (Economic) Survival of Small Island States Threatened by Sea-Level Rise

2011 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 263-311 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jenny Grote Stoutenburg
Keyword(s):  
Sea Level Rise ◽  
Sea Level ◽  
Law Of The Sea ◽  
Small Island ◽  
Island States ◽  
Economic Survival ◽  
Current Design ◽  
Small Island States ◽  
General Assembly Resolution ◽  
Un General Assembly

AbstractSome low-lying small island states are in danger of being rendered uninhabitable or even completely submerged by climate change-induced sea-level rise. However, even before their physical destruction, the socio-economic viability of small island states might be compromised by the current design of the law of the sea which provides for ambulatory baselines and maritime limits and thus the shrinking of maritime zones with sea-level rise. This article examines the legal avenues open to small island and other interested states to permanently fix their maritime zones. Concluding that unilateral strategies are inadequate, it proposes the adoption of coordinated responses such as an Implementation Agreement on Sea-Level Rise or a UN General Assembly resolution on stable maritime zones and explores the precedential basis, scope and possible content of these collective implementation mechanisms for a new regime of stable maritime zones.

Future climate change and its impacts over small island states

2002 ◽  
Vol 19 ◽  
pp. 179-192 ◽  
Author(s):  
M Lal ◽  
H Harasawa ◽  
K Takahashi
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Future Climate ◽  
Future Climate Change ◽  
Small Island ◽  
Island States ◽  
Small Island States
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