Shipping and the environment
Subtitle: law and practice
By: by Colin de la Rue and Charles B. Anderson ; foreword by Efthimios E. Mitropoulos.
Contributors: Anderson, Charles B.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Series: Lloyd's shipping law library
Publisher: Informa Law
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1247
ISBN-13: 9781843113232
Subjects: Shipping -- Environmental aspects; Marine pollution -- Law and legislation; Liability for oil pollution damages; Oil pollution of the sea -- Law and legislation; Environmental law, International
Notes: Previous ed.: LLP, 1998.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: pt.1. Liability and compensation for oil pollution damage; title: Introduction and historical overview; title: Compensation from the shipowner under the civil liability conventions; title: Compensation from the international oil pollution compensation funds; title: Oil pollution: the position in the United States; title: Pollution from offshore craft; title: Pollution from ships' bunkers.; title: pt.2. Compensation for damage by hazardous and noxious substances; title: Compensation from the shipowner and from the HNS Fund under the Hazardous and Noxious Substances Convention 1996 (HNSC); title: HNS damage: the position in the United States.; title: pt.3. Admissibility and assessment of claims; title: Claims: general principles; title: Clean-up operations and other preventive measures; title: Damage to property; title: Economic loss; title: Damage to natural resources and costs of restoration.; title: pt.4. The law relating to particular parties; title: Salvors; title: Charterers and cargo owners; title: Ship managers, operators and associated parties; title: The owners of colliding ships; title: Pilots and maritime authorities; title: Ship financiers; title: P&I Clubs and other liability insurers; title: Hull and cargo insurers.; title: pt.5. Limitation of liability; title: Limitation of liability for pollution and HNS damage.; title: pt.6. Prevention, reduction and control of marine pollution; title: International rules to prevent pollution from ships; title: Prevention of pollution from ships in the United States; title: The response to an incident: international conventions; title: The response to an incident: position in the United States; title: Removal of wrecks and dumping at sea; title: Shipment of waste and dismantling of vessels; title: Enforcement of rules to prevent pollution; title: Criminal liability for pollution from ships.