The Stockholm Declaration and Law of the Marine Environment / / edited by Myron H. Nordquist, John Norton Moore, Said Mahmoudi.

• Superior document: Center for Oceans Law and Policy ; 7
• TeilnehmendeR: Mahmoudi, Said,; Moore, John Norton,; Nordquist, Myron H.,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden; , Boston : : Brill | Nijhoff,, 2003.
• Year of Publication: 2003
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Center for Oceans Law and Policy ; 7.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

This collection of essays commemorates the Thirtieth Anniversary of the 1972 Stockholm Declaration on the Human Environment. The opening presentation is by the distinguished former Foreign Minister of Sweden, Dr. Hans Blix, a primary author of the Stockholm Declaration. A second keynote abstract is by Professor Bjorn Lomborg, the renowned author of The Skeptical Environmentalist. The third keynote essay is by the United Nations Under Secretary-General of Legal Affairs, Hans Correl. The remainder of the volume includes contributions by six judges from the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, the Secretary-General of the International Seabed Authority, senior representatives from the Food and Agriculture Organization, International Maritime Organization, World Bank, Swedish Foreign Ministry and United States Department of State along with 25 professors and environmental law experts from 15 countries. The collection provides a comprehensive, in-depth review of the historic achievement as well as current relevance of the 1972 Stockholm Declaration as a landmark achievement in international environmental law.

Table of Contents

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Prefatory Note -- Note by the Editors -- Introduction -- Welcoming Remarks -- Gustaf Lindencrona -- John Norton Moore -- Keynote Addresses -- Hans Blix -- Bjørn Lomborg -- Hans Corell -- Panel I: Impact of the Stockholm Declaration on International Environmental Law Principles -- The Destiny of the Principles of the Stockholm Declaration -- The Stockholm Declaration and the Structure and Processes of International Environmental Law -- Impact on the Development of International Law on Cooperation: The United Nations Law of the Sea, Straddling Stocks and Biodiversity Convention -- Panel II: Impact of the Stockholm Declaration on International Environmental Institutions -- The Marine Environment and International Environmental Governance -- The World Trade Organization and the Marine Environment -- International Financial Institutions and the Marine Environment: A View from the World Bank -- Panel III: Regional Protection of the Marine Environment -- Regional Approaches to the Protection of the Marine Environment -- Protection of the Marine Environment of the Baltic Sea Area-The Impact of the Stockholm Declaration -- Soft and Hard Law Aspects of Fisheries Issues: Some Recent Global and Regional Approaches -- Regional Protection of the Marine Environment in the Northeast Atlantic Under the OSPAR Convention of 1992 -- Polar Seas -- Panel IV: Marine Environment in Enclosed and Semi-Enclosed Seas -- New Forms of Cooperation in the Mediterranean System of Environmental Protection -- The Black Sea: A Case Study in Regional Cooperation -- The Protection of the Marine Environment in the Adriatic Sea -- Panel V: Marine Environment Jurisdictional Issues -- Jurisdictional Developments and the Law of the Sea Convention: Some Observations on Vessel-Source Pollution.

Marine Environment Jurisdictional Issues: Coastal States -- Flag State Perspectives -- Particularly Sensitive Sea Areas: Current Developments -- Panel VI: Science and the Marine Environment -- The Stockholm Declaration and Law of Marine Environment: An NGO Perspective -- Environmental Problems in the Aegean Sea -- Of Scientists, Science and the Continental Shelf -- Panel VII: Sustainable Development and the Marine Environment -- Three Decades' Progress in High Seas Fisheries Governance: Towards a Common Heritage Regime? -- Management of the Utilization of Living Marine Resources -- Iceland's Adherence to the International Whaling Commission -- Moratorium or Management? -- Replacing Bias with Reality to Achieve the Stockholm Declaration's Dream of a Poverty and Pollution Free World -- Panel VIII: Future Developments -- Some Future Developments in Liability and Compensation for Environmental Damage at Sea -- International Challenges in Addressing Marine Environmental Problems.