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With contributions from an international range of authors, this volume provides a concise account of the legal and policy framework underlying international marine environmental issues, and of the fundamental concepts and strategies that are important to the protection of the marine environment.
List of contents
Notes on the contributors
Acknowledgements
PART I
Introduction and general framework for the international marine environmental law
1 Contemporary issues in the protection and conservation of the marine environment: an overview
Sandya Nishanthi Gunasekara and Md Saiful Karim
2 Ocean governance and marine environmental conservation: concepts, principles and institutions
Abul Hasanat and Md Saiful Karim
PART II
Prevention of marine pollution
3 Prevention, reduction and control of marine pollution from land-based sources and activities
Daud Hassan and Stan Palassis
4 Prevention, reduction and control of marine pollution from ships
Mahatab Uddin and Md Saiful Karim
5 Control and prevention of marine pollution from offshore hydrocarbon and mineral resources exploration and production activities
Hossein Esmaeili
6 Climate change, ocean acidification and the marine environment: challenges for the international legal regime
Tavis Potts
7 Marine spatial planning and the new frontiers of marine governance
Niko Soininen and Daud Hassan
PART III
Conservation and management of marine living resources
8 Conservation of marine living resources and fisheries management
Daud Hassan and Emdadul Haque
9 Marine protected areas: contemporary challenges and developments
Erika Techera
10 Recognition of Indigenous rights in governance of marine protected areas: applying international law and Australian experiences
Donna Craig
PART IV
Polar regions
11 Protection of the Antarctic marine environment: dimensions, relationships and fields
Tuomas Kuokkanen
12 Protection of the arctic marine environment
Timo Koivurova and Nengye Liu
PART V
Settlement of disputes and conclusions 223
13 Contemporary marine environmental disputes
Daud Hassan and Beatriz Garcia
14 Future of international marine environmental law and policy: concluding remarks
Daud Hassan and Asraful Alam
Index
About the author
Daud Hassan is the Director of International Centre for Ocean Governance (ICOG), Western Sydney University, Australia.
Md Saiful Karim is the Director International at the School of Law, Queensland University of Technology, Australia.
Summary
With contributions from an international range of authors, this volume provides a concise account of the legal and policy framework underlying international marine environmental issues, and of the fundamental concepts and strategies that are important to the protection of the marine environment.
