TY - BOOK AU - Torres Camprubí,Alejandra TI - Statehood under water: challenges of sea-level rise to the continuity of Pacific island states T2 - Legal aspects of sustainable development, SN - 9789004321601 U1 - 341.26 PY - 2016/// CY - Leiden, Boston PB - Brill Nijhoff KW - Global warming KW - Law and legislation KW - Sea level KW - Social aspects KW - Islands of the Pacific KW - Coast changes KW - International status N1 - Based on author's thesis (doctoral - Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 2014) issued under title: Climate change and international security: Revealing new challenges to the continuation of Pacific islands' statehood; Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction: The law on statehood in the Anthropocene -- Ch. 1. The challenge of de-territorialisation -- Ch. 2. The challenge of de-population -- Ch. 3. The challenge of governmental failure -- Conclusions N2 - Conclusions. In Statehood under Water, Alejandra Torres Camprub’ÛÎ_ revisits the concept of statehood through an analysis on how sea-level rise and the Anthropocene challenge the territorial, demographical, and political dimensions of the State. Closely examining the fight for survival undertaken by low-lying Pacific Island States, she engages with the legal and policy innovations necessary to address these new scenarios. The monograph reacts against overly formal approaches to the law on statehood, and is devoted to the reconstruction of the context in which both the challenges, and the measures adopted to tackle them, are taking place. Progressively forged within the international community, it is the kind of political and ethical framework that will soon inform the potential transformation of the law on statehood ER -