Protecting the polar marine environment - interplay of regulatory frameworks

... sources of pollution in the Arctic. This is largely the theme of Part II. The first three chapters in Part II all focus on the major regional sources of pollution of the polar marine environment. They ... primarily to the Antarctic, and Canada for the Arctic. Then there is the ‘bi- polar case of the United States. One other important polar state, Russia, is...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 09:20

... Convention on the Law of the Sea and the polarmarineenvironment34Budislav Vukasvii Applicability of the LOS Convention to the polar oceans35Navigation and the protection of the marine environment3 8Enclosed ... left blank Protecting the polar marine environmentHow can we best protect the polar marine environment against pollu-tion? Leading scholars on...

Ngày tải lên: 21/09/2012, 10:58

... commitment to the protection of the Arctic marine environment. The Manhattan incident The catalyst for the eventual development of the first specific provision for the polar marine environment in the international ... Conference on the Law of the Sea. Responses to the Law of the Sea Convention Article 234 of the LOS Convention provides multilateral r...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 09:20

... XII of the LOS Convention deals with the protection and preservation of the marine environment. It applies to the entire marine environment, the polar oceans included. Among these rules of general ... preservation of the marine environment) and Part XV (settlement of disputes). We begin by indicating some of the provisions from other Parts of the Conve...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 09:20

... array of other international environmental instru- ments also assist in protecting various aspects of the polar marine environment. 6 The purpose of this chapter is to review and assess the relevance ... Convention for the Prevention of Marine Pollution from Land-Based Sources, 71 and more recently through the 1992 Convention for the Protection of the Marine...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 09:20

... never a party to it; neither is it a party to the successor 1992 Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the North-East Atlantic 71 (OSPAR). The cost-side of environmental protection ... monitoring the Arctic environment, particu- larly for contamination, and an assessment of the state of the Arctic environment. A working group on the Prote...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 09:20

... accurately the contributions of the Barents Region to the protection of the Arctic marine environment. Normative contributions In the process leading up to the establishment of BEAR, the environ- mental ... protection of the marine environment, the county-level com- ponent of BEAR has contributed primarily by drawing attention to the land-based sources of...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 09:20

... Whether these two bodies of law conflict or co-exist is beyond the scope of this chapter, but the question is important to an understanding of the law relating to the protection of the marine environment ... any of the UNEP treaties, the 1980 CCAMLR defines the Antarctic marine environment in these terms for the purposes of conservation of living resource...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 09:20

... of plastics of the past 30 years. In the marine environment, the perceived abundance of marine life and the vastness of the oceans have lead to the dismissal of the prolife- ration of plastic ... estimates of the amount of plastic debris that reaches the marine envi- ronment, but the quantities are nevertheless quite sub- stantial. In 1975 the worl...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 23:20

... Humphrey, Loft and Woods (2009) explore the impact of the financial crisis on the international financial architecture of the last decade, which can be characterised as a ‘standards-surveillance-compliance’ ... respondents or their clients Table 3 shows the results of the question asking respondents to indicate how valuable audit is to them or, in the case of APs to t...

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