The politics of the oceans
By: edited by Kenneth Partridge
Series: The reference shelf -- v. 83, no. 5; Reference shelf -- v. 83, no. 5.
Publisher: H.W. Wilson
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Ipswich, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 187
ISBN-13: 9780824211110
Subjects: Marine pollution; Law of the sea; Piracy; United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea; Environmental aspects; Political aspects; Territorial waters; Ocean
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: I.; title: LOST at sea: debating the Law of the Sea Treaty. The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea: (a historical perspective)  -- United Nations ; LOST would be a loser for the U.S. / -- James Carafano ;; title: Editorial: A treaty whose time has come  -- The New York Times ;; title: LOST ratification would sacrifice sovereignty, weaken military: exclusive interview  -- Chris Carter ;; title: Sea treaty has broad support, but little chance of ratification  -- Andrew Jensen -- II.; title: Lines in the water: territorial disputes in the Arctic and beyond. From sea to shining sea to Arctic ocean: sovereignty issues and energy opportunities can no longer be ignored  -- Joe Ralston ;; title: As ice melts and technology improves, interest in Arctic grows  -- Jarondakie Patrick and Erika Bolstad ;; title: As the far north melts, calls grow for Arctic treaty  -- Ed Struzik ;; title: Bolivia-Chile dispute could turn ugly  -- Andres Oppenheimer ;; title: Center-stage for the twenty-first century  -- Robert D. Kaplan -- t III.; title: Trouble in the Gulf: the BP oil spill. The oil spill's surprise endings  -- Newsweek ;; title: The spill, the scandal and the president  -- Tim Dickinson ;; title: Oil and water  -- Paul Burka ;; title: BP oil spill : forgotten but not gone  -- Charles Wohlforth ;; title: America's Chernobyl  -- Ruth Conniff -- IV.; title: Pollution and the island of trash. Wasted waves: surveying the plastic adrift in the world's oceans  -- Anna Cummins ;; title: Trashing the island  -- Charlie Gillis ;; title: Out of sight, out of mine : ocean dumping of mine wastes  -- Robert Moran, Amanda Reichelt-Brushett, Roy Young ;; title: Japanese tsunami aftermath floating Alaska's way  -- Doug O'Harra ;; title: The peril of plastic  -- Bettina Wassener -- V.; title: Scourge of the seas: piracy.; title: Somalia: total cost of piracy menace hits U.S. $12 billion  -- Christine Mungai ;; title: As pirate attacks grow, shipowners take arms  -- Peter Apps ;; title: Nigeria: the "other" maritime piracy hotbed  -- Donna J. Nincic ;; title: How Somalia's fishermen became pirates  -- Ishaan Tharoor ;; title: We're firing blanks in the war against piracy  -- Praveen Swami -- VI.; title: The end of seafood? Overfishing around the world.; title: Overfishing could take seafood off the menu by 2048  -- David Biello ;; title: Fish on Fridays: the end of overfishing in America  -- Michael Conathan ;; title: Fish on Fridays: maximizing the value of America's fisheries  -- Michael Conathan ;; title: Time for a sea change  -- Paul Greenberg ;; title: Red fish, green fish : what you need to know about seafood ratings  -- Jacqueline Church ;; title: Food : something's fishy -- Matthew McClearn.