Protecting the Polar Marine Environment: Law and Policy for Pollution Prevention - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521663113 ISBN 13: 9780521663113

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2000

Synopsis

How can we best protect the polar marine environment against pollution? Leading scholars on environmental law, the law of the sea, and Arctic and Antarctic affairs here examine this important question. To what extent do existing global instruments of environmental protection apply to the Arctic Ocean and the Southern Ocean? Can the arrangements adopted at regional, sub-regional and national levels provide adequate protection? This book examines and compares various levels of regulation in protecting the marine environment of the Arctic and Antarctic, with specific attention to land-based activities, radioactive waste dumping, and shipping in ice-covered waters. Developments since the establishment of the Arctic Council in 1996 and the entry into force of the Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty in 1998 are also discussed. This is a volume that will appeal to polar specialists and to all those interested in environmental law and policy.

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Review

'... the volume recommends itself for combining updated information with thought-provoking analysis, as was to be expected from the leading legal authorities in polar or marine issues who contributed to it.' Journal of Polar Record

Book Description

How can we protect the polar marine environment against pollution? Leading scholars compare global, regional and national levels of regulation. Developments since the establishment of the Arctic Council in 1996 and the entry into force of the Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty in 1998 are also discussed.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521663113
• ISBN 13: 9780521663113
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 300
• Editor: Vidas Davor