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Environmental Governance of the Great Seas: Law and Effect
Author(s): Joseph F.C. DiMento (Author), Alexis Jaclyn Hickman (Author)
- Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
- Publication Date: October 31, 2012
- Language: English
- Print length: 240 pages
- ISBN-10: 1848443757
- ISBN-13: 9781848443754
Book Description
The authors address the specific roles of the Law of the Sea and the United Nations Regional Seas Programme and discuss the importance of better information exchange between scientists and policymakers, increased funding, greater participation, and new and more effective laws. National, regional and international initiatives are conceptualized as clusters, and their success evaluated using data on the physical conditions of the seas, the law and policy adopted, and international cooperation.
The interdisciplinary, insightful treatment of this complex issue will be of great interest to policymakers, students and scholars in the fields of law and policy as well as marine and environmental sciences.
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‘Environmental Governance of the Great Seas: Law and Effect
provides a considerable volume of valuable data and analysis on the capacity of regional structures to deliver tangible regulatory benefits to the marine environment generally, and on the operational challenges facing particular regional frameworks specifically. It is an insightful, accessible and revealing work, shedding considerable light on the merits and pitfalls of regional frameworks and the ability of institutions to interact effectively. Finally, it is a work that will be of great interest and assistance to those engaged with the challenging issues of institutional performance, treaty congestion and the role and value of ever-increasing regionalism in the pursuit of effective environmental standards.’ — Richard Caddell, The International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law
