Research Catalog

Title

The Oceans and environmental security : shared U.S. and Russian perspectives / edited by James M. Broadus and Raphael V. Vartanov (Marine Policy Center, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and Institute of World Economy and International Relations, Russian Academy of Sciences).

Publication

Washington, D.C. : Island Press, [1994], ©1994.

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Additional Authors

• Broadus, James M.
• Vartanov, R. V. (Rafaėlʹ Vramovich)
• Marine Policy Center (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
• Institut mirovoĭ ėkonomiki i mezhdunarodnykh otnosheniĭ (Rossiĭskai︠a︡ akademii︠a︡ nauk)

Description

xxii, 328 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Subject

• Marine resources conservation > Law and legislation
• Marine pollution > Law and legislation
• Environmental law, International
• Hazardous substances > Law and legislation
• Radioactive pollution of the sea > Law and legislation
• Maritime law > Russia (Federation)
• Maritime law > United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Ch. 1. Introduction. Evolving Notions of Security. The Emergence of the Concept of Environmental Security. Threats to Environmental Security -- Ch. 2. Land-based Marine Pollution: The Gulf of Mexico and the Black Sea. Regional Cooperation. Comparative Cases. The Gulf of Mexico. The Black Sea -- Ch. 3. Living Resource Problems: The North Pacific. The Ecosystems of the Bering Sea and the Adjacent North Pacific. Fisheries Depletion. Ecosystem Perturbations from Fisheries Depletion. The Doughnut Hole and the Problem of Straddling Stocks. Economic Considerations for Straddling Stocks. Legal Options for Straddling Stocks. Driftnet Fisheries and Incidental Take. Policy Implications of Incidental Take. National Legal Initiatives on Driftnets. International Legal Responses to Living Resource Problems. Gaps in Scientific Information and Future Research Priorities. A Regional Regime for Environmental Security -- Ch. 4. Hazardous Materials Transport. Problems of Definition, Classification, and Information.
• The Existing Legal and Regulatory Structure. Regulatory Inadequacies and Their Implications for Marine Environmental Protection. Economic Perspectives on Seaborne Hazardous Materials. Technology for Hazardous Materials Transport -- Ch. 5. Radioactivity in the Oceans. Potential Sources of Radioactivity in the Oceans. Projections of Future Sources of Contamination. Nuclear Proliferation and the Threat to the Oceans. Public Perceptions and Resulting Countermeasures. Existing Legal Rights, Obligations, and Controls -- Ch. 6. Environmental Protection for the Arctic Ocean. Environmental Vulnerabilities in the Arctic Basin. Current Economic Development Activities in the Arctic. Cooperative Agreements and the Emerging Multilateral Regime. The Role of Political Developments in Russia. Prospects and Prerequisites for Success -- Ch. 7. The Southern Ocean. The Existing Legal Rules. Competing Management Principles. Environmental Hazards in the Southern Ocean. Which Regime? -- Ch. 8. The Law of the Sea.
• The Sources of International Environmental Law. An Overview of the Law of the Sea Convention, Part XII. Pollution Control and Ecosystem Protection. The Law of the Sea Convention as a Framework for Assurance Building -- Ch. 9. Conclusions. Critical Problems of International Environmental Security. Cross-Cutting Themes.

ISBN

• 1559632356
• 1559632364 (pbk.)

LCCN

93048894

OCLC

• 29634760
• ocm29634760

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries