Science, technology, and new challenges to ocean law
By: edited by Harry N. Scheiber, James Kraska, Moon-Sang Kwon
Contributors: Law of the Sea Institute
Publisher: Brill Nijhoff
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 481
ISBN-13: 9789004299603; 9789004299610
Subjects: Technological innovations; Congresses; Law of the sea; Law and legislation
Description: "Science, Technology, and New Challenges to Ocean Law offers fresh perspectives on a set of vital issues in the field of ocean law and policy. Since the early period of the industrial revolution, successive waves of revolutionary scientific discoveries and technological innovations have intensified the global population's exploitation of ocean and coastal resources. In this volume, several leading authorities in the field address major dimensions of the interface of science, technology, and ocean law - both historically and in current-day perspective - and emergent challenges in legal ordering of ocean uses for sustainability and equitability. Among the topics that are analysed in these readable, accessible papers are ecosystem approaches to resource management, the historic interplay of science and military concerns, the place of science in dispute-settlement processes, the varied human uses of the seabed, the roles in ocean governance of indigenous peoples, legal issues in fisheries management and conservation, and special regional problems of the Arctic, the Bering Strait, the South China Sea, and the eastern Mediterranean. The urgent importance of the subjects addressed here, together with the variety of disciplinary approaches deployed by the authors, enhance the value of this book's unique contribution to the literature of ocean studies"--Unedited summary from book cover.
Notes: "A Law of the Sea Institute Publication."

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Harry N. Scheiber, Director, LOSI; title: Law and science in the jurisprudence of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea / Tullio Treves; title: From the age of discovery to the atomic age : the conflux of marine science, seapower, and oceans governance / James Kraska; title: A European law perspective : science, technology, and new challenges to ocean law / Ronan Long; title: Developing an equitable and ecosystem-based approach to fisheries management / Ruth Davis and Quentin Hanich; title: Sustaining Atlantic marine species at risk: scientific and legal coordinates, sea of governance challenges / David L. VanderZwaag; title: Implementing the Nagoya protocol in Pacific Island countries / Justin Rose; title: The deep ocean : advancing stewardship of the earth's largest living space / Kathryn J. Mengerink; title: Submarine communications cables and science : a new frontier in ocean governance? / Tara Davenport; title: Offshore energy : troubled waters in the eastern Mediterranean Sea / Maria Gavouneli; title: International legal challenges concerning marine scientific research in the era of climate change / Alexander Proelss; title: 'Idle iron' versus 'rigs-to-reefs' : surviving conflicting policy mandates in the Gulf of Mexico / Richard J. McLaughlin; title: Dividing and managing increasingly international waters : delimiting the bering sea, strait and beyond / Clive Schofield; title: The role of indigenous peoples in managing offshore Arctic resources / Jordan Diamond; title: China's emerging Arctic strategy and the framework of Arctic governance / Jun Zhao; title: Boundary conflict : the China-Philippines confrontation over the Scarborough Reef, and the viability of UNCLOS dispute resolution procedures / Joel C. Coito; title: Combating illegal and unauthorized fishing : an assessment of contemporary practice / Stuart Kaye; title: A remembrance of Stefan A. Riesenfeld / John Briscoe.