Research Catalog

Title

Common heritage or common burden? : the United States position on the development of a regime for deap sea-bed mining in the Law of the Sea Convention / Markus G. Schmidt.

Author

Schmidt, Markus G.

Publication

Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1989.

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Details

Description

xiv, 366 pages : map; 23 cm

Subject

• Ocean bottom > Law and legislation
• Ocean mining > Law and legislation > United States
• Marine resources conservation > Law and legislation > United States
• Common heritage of mankind (International law)
• Marine resources conservation > Law and legislation
• Ocean mining > Law and legislation
• Meeresbergbau
• Reform
• Seevölkerrecht
• Natural resources
• Deep seabed
• Mineral resources of the deep seabed
• Common heritage of mankind
• United States
• USA
• USA

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references ([329]-358) and indexes.

Contents

The Build-up to UNCLOS, Pardo's Common Heritage Proposal, and the United States View on the Lawfulness of Deep Sea-bed Mining -- The build-up to UNCLOS -- Pardo's Common Heritage Proposal -- The United States view on the lawfulness of deep sea-bed mining -- Dilemmas of United States Domestic Sea-bed Politics -- The line-up of actors and their roles -- Actors at executive branch level -- The input of Congress -- The mining industry's role -- The United States delegation to UNCLOS -- The role of non-governmental organizations -- The role of the media -- The Interagency Task Force on the Law of the Sea and the Law of the Sea Advisory Committee -- The Interagency Task Force -- The Law of the Sea Advisory Committee -- Towards Domestic Sea-bed Legislation -- Rationale for United States sea-bed legislation -- Legislative activities, 1971-1976 -- Towards government support for sea-bed legislation -- Major issues in sea-bed legislation, 1977-1978 -- Activities in the 96th Congress, 1979-1980 -- The Group of 77's response to United States sea-bed legislation -- The United States Position in Committee One at UNCLOS -- Part One: the Negotiation of the System of Exploitation -- Possible regulatory mechanisms for deep sea-bed mining -- The 'precedential implications' of the sea-bed negotiations and the background of the New International Economic Order -- Conference organization and procedures -- The negotiation of the system of exploitation -- UNCLOS and the 'package deal' -- The sea-bed negotiations in 1974 -- The negotiation of the Informal Single Negotiating Text -- The parallel system and the negotiation of the Revised Single Negotiating Text -- Turning back the clock? The Informal Composite Negotiating Text of 1977 -- 'Walking back the Informal Composite Negotiating Text': The negotiations in 1978 -- The negotiations in 1979 and 1980 -- The United States Position in Committee One at UNCLOS -- Part Two -- The negotiation of the financial terms of contract -- The technology transfer issue -- The issue of preparatory investment protection -- The structure of the International Sea-bed Authority -- The United States Position in Committee One at UNCLOS -- Part Three: The Production Policy Debate -- The impact of sea-bed mining on the markets of nickel, copper, cobalt, and manganese -- The production policy debate, 1974-1977 -- The production policy debate, 1978-1981 -- Other potential mechanisms to assist land-based producers -- The 'strategic importance' of deep sea-bed mining -- Summary and conclusion, chapters 4-6 -- The Reagan Administration's Policy Review -- The build-up to the review -- The announcement of the review -- The spring 1981 session and the first stages of the review -- The summer 1981 session of the conference -- The completion of the review and the build-up to the last session -- Negotiations at the final session -- The final stage of the conference and the vote -- The Reagan Administration's Law of the Sea Policy, 1982-1987 -- Background to the 1983 Reagan proclamation of an Exclusive Economic Zone and the Ocean Policy Statement -- The status of the Convention's non sea-bed provisions -- The growing resource interest in the United States Exclusive Economic Zone -- United States attempts to establish an alternative regime for deep sea-bed mining -- United States attitudes towards the work of PrepCom -- Exploration Licences Issued by United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration under the Deep Sea-bed Hard Mineral Resources Act.

ISBN

• 0198252277
• 9780198252276

LCCN

90186689

OCLC

• ocm23017398
• 23017398
• SCSB-1928254

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library