Some of the likely consequences are generally recognized: land territory flooded and rendered uninhabitable, primary industries severely affected, and infrastructure destroyed. Outside academia it is not always equally well known that the geographical extent of maritime entitlement of states will also be severely affected, as a result of moving maritime limits, or that some states may lose entitlement to their entire maritime territory, threatening their very survival. These consequences are the direct result of applying the rules set out in the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (LOSC).