Full Description
Ocean Law and Coastal Law have grown rapidly in the past three decades as specialty areas within natural resources law and environmental law. The protection of oceans has received increased attention in the past decade because of the global overfishing crisis, widespread depletion of marine living resources (such as marine mammals and coral reefs), and oil pollution. During this same period, climate change regulation has emerged as a focus of international environmental diplomacy, and has gained increased attention in the wake of disturbing and abrupt climate change related impacts throughout the world that have profound implications for ocean and coastal regulation and marine resources.
Climate Change Impacts on Ocean and Coastal Law effectively brings together the two worlds of climate change and ocean and coastal management. It raises important questions about whether and how ocean and coastal law will respond to the regulatory challenges that climate change presents to resources in the oceans and coasts of the U.S. and the world. This comprehensive work assembles the insights of global experts from academia and major NGOs (e.g., Center for International Environmental Law, Ocean Conservancy, and Environmental Law Institute) to address regulatory challenges from the perspectives of U.S. law, foreign domestic law, and international law.
Contents
Editor and Contributor Biographies ; Acknowledgments ; Foreword by Robin Kundis Craig, William H. Leary Professor of Law, University of Utah, S.J. Quinney College of Law ; Preface ; Introduction ; Chapter 1: Climate Change Impacts on Ocean and Coastal Law: Scientific Realities and Legal Responses ; Randall S. Abate and Dr. Sarah Krejci ; Part I: Oceans ; Chapter 2: Curbing CO2 Pollution: Using Existing Laws to Address Ocean Acidification ; Miyoko Sakashita ; Chapter 3: Using the Clean Air Act to Address Ocean Acidification ; Dr. Margaret E. Peloso ; Introduction to the Magnuson-Stevens Act (provides context for Chapters 4-6) ; Chapter 4: Moving Targets: Fisheries Management in New England in the Midst of Climate Change ; Susan Farady ; Chapter 5: Responding to Climate Change Impacts to Fisheries and Marine Habitat in the Gulf of Mexico ; Dr. Richard McLaughlin ; Chapter 6: Climate Change Impacts to Fisheries and Habitat in the Pacific and the Arctic ; Janis Searles Jones, Ivy Fredrickson, and Adena Leibman ; Chapter 7: The Endangered Species Act and Marine Species Protection in the Climate Change Era ; Alexis K. Segal ; Chapter 8: Offshore Wind and Wave Energy and Ocean Governance ; Megan Higgins and Jason Busch ; Chapter 9: Marine Mammal Protection Act Implementation in an Era of Climate Change ; Keith Rizzardi ; Chapter 10: Confronting the Marine Invasive Species Threat: Practical and Legal Challenges ; Stephanie Showalter Otts ; Chapter 11: The Impact of Marine Invasive Species on Endangered Species ; Protection Efforts in a Changing Ocean Environment ; Eric Hull ; Chapter 12: Climate Change and the International Law of the Sea: Mapping the Legal Issues ; Dr. Marcos A. Orellana ; Chapter 13: Governance of Arctic Ocean Marine Resources ; Dr. Kamrul Hossain ; Chapter 14: Climate Change and the Shifting International Law and Policy Seascape for Arctic Shipping ; Dr. David L. VanderZwaag ; Chapter 15: Governance of Climate Change Impacts on the Antarctic Marine Environment ; Elizabeth Burleson and Jennifer Huang ; Chapter 16: Climate Geoengineering and Dispute Settlement under UNCLOS and the UNFCCC: Stormy Seas Ahead? ; Dr. Meinhard Doelle ; Chapter 17: The Regulation of Ocean Fertilization and Marine Geoengineering under the London Protocol ; Bettina Boschen ; Chapter 18: Law, Climate Change, and the Marine Environment in the Indian Ocean Region ; Dr. Erika Techera ; Part II: Coasts ; Chapter 19: Climate Change and the Coastal Zone Management Act: The Role of Federalism in Adaptation Strategies ; Chad McGuire ; Chapter 20: Coastal Construction and Beach Renourishment in the New Climate ; Patrick W. Krechowski ; Chapter 21: Temporary Takings, More or Less ; Timothy M. Mulvaney ; Chapter 22: Climate Change Adaptation Strategies in New England ; Julia Wyman ; Chapter 23: The Role of Alaska Natives in Climate Change Decision-Making in the Alaskan Arctic ; David Roche, Ramona Sladic, Jordan Diamond, and Dr. Kathryn Mengerink ; Chapter 24: Rising to the Challenge: California Climate Change Adaptation ; Sara Aminzadeh ; Chapter 25: Sea Level Rise and Species Survival along the Florida Coast ; Jaclyn Lopez ; Chapter 26: Sea Level Rise and a Sinking Coast: How Louisiana Coastal Communities are Addressing Climate Change ; Melissa Trosclair Daigle ; Chapter 27: Coastal Climate Change Adaptation and International Human Rights ; Megan M. Herzog ; Chapter 28: The Ebb and Flow of Coastal Adaptation in Australia ; Jan McDonald ; Chapter 29: Legal and Policy Responses to Climate Change in the Philippines ; Dr. Lowell Bautista ; Index
