| Summary: | This wholly new edition of the Handbook provides an authoritative examination of international law relating to the protection of the marine environment. Chapters critically engage with current legal issues surrounding activities that harm the marine environment, including marine pollution, seabed activities, exploitation of marine biodiversity and climate change, and with the different legal tools and mechanisms, including environmental impact assessments and compliance and dispute settlement mechanisms, used to protect the marine environment. New chapters also address legal issues relating to the role of technology and marine scientific research as well as the application of principles such as public participation. Preface xi PART I MARINE ENVIRONMENTAL LAW IN THE 21ST CENTURY 1 International marine environmental law in the 21st century 2 Rosemary Rayfuse, Aline Jaeckel and Natalie Klein 2 The UN Convention on the Law of the Sea – still relevant to protection of the marine environment? 33 Robin Churchill 3 Fragmentation and coherence in the legal framework for the protection of the marine environment 57 Alexander Proelss PART II LEGAL FRAMEWORKS FOR THE PROTECTION OF THE MARINE ENVIRONMENT 4 Basic principles of international marine environmental law 81 Yoshifumi Tanaka 5 Compliance mechanisms under treaties relating to protection of the marine environment 104 James Harrison 6 Resolving international disputes concerning the marine environment 124 Natalie Klein and Millicent McCreath 7 Mapping progress and challenges for the UNEP Regional Sea Programme for the Mediterranean 150 Nilufer Oral 8 The Indian Ocean region and marine environmental law 172 Erika Techera PART III POLLUTION AND THE MARINE ENVIRONMENT 9 Vessel-source pollution – some key developments 196 Henrik Ringbom 10 Regulating shipping under conditions of uncertainty: The Arctic Ocean and knowledge-based decision-making 218 Tore Henriksen 11 From ocean dumping to marine geoengineering: The evolution of the London Regime 240 Karen N Scott 12 Ocean ...
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