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The Sinking Of Sovereignty And Sovereign Rights? Mitigating The Impacts Of Climate Change To Maritime Jurisdiction And A Proposal For Solutions, I Made Andi Arsana
The Sinking Of Sovereignty And Sovereign Rights? Mitigating The Impacts Of Climate Change To Maritime Jurisdiction And A Proposal For Solutions, I Made Andi Arsana
Indonesia Law Review
While some still debate whether or not climate change is a reality, one of its impacts, sea level rise, is factual. The cause and the rate of sea level rise might have been inconclusive but its impacts have been clearly felt. Sea level rise can also change the legal status of insular features (small islands/rocks and low tide elevation) that will also affect their capacity in making maritime claim. For an archipelagic State like Indonesia, small outer islands/rocks or low-tide elevation are important for location of basepoints forming the entire system of archipelagic baselines. This paper investigates the impact of …