How can we best protect the polar marine environment against pollution? Leading scholars on environmental law, the law of the sea, and Arctic and Antarctic affairs here examine this important question. To what extent do existing global instruments of environmental protection apply to the Arctic Ocean and the Southern Ocean? Can the arrangements adopted at regional, sub-regional and national levels provide adequate protection? This book examines and compares various levels of regulation in protecting the marine environment of the Arctic and Antarctic, with specific attention to land-based activities, radioactive waste dumping, and shipping in ice-covered waters. Developments since the establishment of the Arctic Council in 1996 and the entry into force of the Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty in 1998 are also discussed. This is a volume that will appeal to polar specialists and to all those interested in environmental law and policy.
Protecting the Polar Marine Environment Through Regional Cooperation
Australian and Canadian Perspectives and Regulations for Protecting the Polar Marine Environment
Not surprisingly, Arctic States seeking to maintain their supremacy in the region argue the current governance system is ... Public Policy,” Ocean Yearbook 17 (2003), 596–624, at 623 et seq.; Oran Young, “Whither the Arctic 2009?
Protecting the Polar Marine Environment: Aspects of the 1982 LOS Convention
It is hoped that this review of the legal and policy contrasts between the Arctic and Antarctic can help in the consideration of future directions for the Arctic legal regime.
Discusses why polar regions are so important to ecology, the animals and plants that have adapted to live in polar regions, threats to polar regions, and how these regions are being conserved.
Responding to Oil Spills in the U.S. Arctic Marine Environment reviews the current state of the science regarding oil spill response and environmental assessment in the Arctic region north of the Bering Strait, with emphasis on the ...
The Arctic Ocean is one of 13 ecologically defined bioregions within the National Framework for Heritage, Our Future (2009), 12. Canada's Network of Marine Protected Areas.66 However, progress towards implementing.
The Law of the Sea and the Polar Regions: Interactions between Global and Regional Regimes examines regional regimes for the Arctic and Antarctic on among others science, maritime security, marine-protected areas, fisheries and shipping, by ...
The Antarctic Legal System: The Protection of the Environment of the Polar Regions