Sea Level Rise and Shifting Maritime Limits: Stable Baselines as a Response to Unstable Coastlines
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عنوان ژورنال: Arctic Review on Law and Politics
سال: 2018
ISSN: 2387-4562
DOI: 10.23865/arctic.v9.1162