The environmental rule of law for oceans : : designing legal solutions / / edited by Froukje Maria Platjouw, Alla Pozdnakova.

• TeilnehmendeR: Platjouw, Froukje Maria,; Pozdnakova, Alla,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, United Kingdom ;, New York, NY : : Cambridge University Press,, 2023.
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: First edition.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xxxiii, 380 pages) :; digital, PDF file(s).
• Notes: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 21 Feb 2023).

Our oceans need a strong and effective environmental rule of law to protect them against increased pressures and demands, including climate change, pollution, fisheries, shipping and more. The environmental rule of law for oceans requires the existence of a set of rules and policies at multiple governance levels that appropriately regulate human activities at sea and ensure that pressures on the marine ecosystem are tackled effectively. Adhering to the rule of law through clear, predictable, coherent, and legitimate rules, and their implementation and enforcement, is timely and urgent. In this book, we are searching for ways to improve, strengthen and further develop the environmental rule of law for oceans. The book provides future-oriented perspectives on how law should evolve to better preserve the oceans. All chapters incorporate novel insights and ideas for legal solutions that might inspire scholars, actors, authorities, citizens and communities around the globe. This title is Open Access.

Table of Contents

Froukje Maria Platjouw and Alla Pozdnakova / The environmental rule of law for oceans -- Christina Voigt / Oceans and climate change : implications for UNCLOS and the UN climate regime -- David Testa / Controlling GHG emissions from shipping : the role, relevance, and fitness for purpose of UNCLOS -- Dawoon Jung / An international legal framework for marine plastics pollution : time for a change to regulate the lifecycle of plastics -- Anastasia Telesetsky / The "thin law" of plastic regulation and a proposal for a regional or global waste tariff -- Alla Pozdnakova / Pollution of the marine environment by spaceflights -- Rozemarijn Roland Holst / Restoration activities in the marine environment : balancing diverging perceptions of 'risk' -- Brita Bohman and Henrik Ringbom / Marine geo-engineering to abate eutrophication in the Baltic Sea : how to address regulatory voids and uncertainty-- Aref Shams / Filling an iceberg-sized gap in the law of the sea : addressing an emerging demand on oceans -- Maurus Wollensa / The precautionary principle/approach and the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea - management of living resources -- Pierre Cloutier de Repentigny / A regime lost at sea : critical reflections on the UNCLOS conservation regime and the future of marine Biodiversity Protection -- Mitchell Lennan / Fisheries redistribution under climate change : rethinking the law to address the 'governance gap'? -- Jakub Ciesielczuk / Defining marine genetic resources - navigating through the sea of uncertainties -- David Langlet / Legitimacy and EU marine governance -- Vasco Becker-Weinberg / Recognition of maritime environmental crimes within international law : a new global paradigm for the protection and preservation of the marine environment -- Pieter van Welzen Mending / The net : state responsibility for ntionals engaged in IUU fishing? -- Carlos Cruz Carrillo / The advisory jurisdiction of the ITLOS : from uncertainties to opportunities for ocean governance -- Leonila Guglya / Could the WTO save the oceans? an inquiry into the role of the WTO in the future of fisheries policies -- Solène Guggisberg / Improving compliance with international fisheries law through litigation -- Sarah Enright / Regional cooperation for the conservation of marine biodiversity in the Eastern tropical pacific : a rule of law perspective -- Kirsi White / Oil pollution control regulations in the Baltic Sea-the effect of institutional interplay on implementation of the ecosystem approach -- Andrey Todorov / The international law of the sea and arctic governance : paving the way to integrated ecosystem-based marine management -- Constantinos Yiallourides / Understanding Japan's resumption of commercial whaling under international law -- Agnes Chong / Failing rule of law : the case of the South China Sea -- Concluding remarks -- Froukje Maria Platjouw and Alla Pozdnakova / Legal solutions for oceans in change : mapping out the way forward.