UN Ocean Conference: can the law protect our ocean ecosystems?

With the UN Ocean Conference beginning in New York next week, Elizabeth A Kirk asks: can we devise a legal system that promotes the ecological resilience of the oceans? To do so will mean placing ecosystems at the heart of decision making, over and above countries' selfish 'national intere...

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Main Author: Kirk, E
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Published: The Resurgence Trust 2017
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Online Access:https://eprints.lincoln.ac.uk/id/eprint/37099/
https://theecologist.org/2017/jun/01/un-ocean-conference-can-law-protect-our-ocean-ecosystems
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spelling ftulincoln:oai:eprints.lincoln.ac.uk:37099 2023-05-15T17:50:25+02:00 UN Ocean Conference: can the law protect our ocean ecosystems? Kirk, E 2017-06-01 https://eprints.lincoln.ac.uk/id/eprint/37099/ https://theecologist.org/2017/jun/01/un-ocean-conference-can-law-protect-our-ocean-ecosystems unknown The Resurgence Trust Kirk, E (2017) UN Ocean Conference: can the law protect our ocean ecosystems? The Ecologist . Article PeerReviewed 2017 ftulincoln 2022-03-02T20:12:00Z With the UN Ocean Conference beginning in New York next week, Elizabeth A Kirk asks: can we devise a legal system that promotes the ecological resilience of the oceans? To do so will mean placing ecosystems at the heart of decision making, over and above countries' selfish 'national interests'. It will be tough, but if we fail it's hard to see how the gamut of problems - from ocean acidification to plastic pollution and overfishing - can ever be solved. Article in Journal/Newspaper Ocean acidification University of Lincoln: Lincoln Repository
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description With the UN Ocean Conference beginning in New York next week, Elizabeth A Kirk asks: can we devise a legal system that promotes the ecological resilience of the oceans? To do so will mean placing ecosystems at the heart of decision making, over and above countries' selfish 'national interests'. It will be tough, but if we fail it's hard to see how the gamut of problems - from ocean acidification to plastic pollution and overfishing - can ever be solved.
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url https://eprints.lincoln.ac.uk/id/eprint/37099/
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