Full Description
This book examines the challenge of negotiating and implementing new legal regimes addressing contemporary ocean challenges in the context of uncertain planetary futures.
The book covers the themes of climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution. Contributors examine a range of emerging, understudied issues, including the legal regulation of ocean acidification, the development of the mining code by the International Seabed Authority, the implementation of the 2023 Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction (BBNJ) Agreement, and compliance mechanisms developed by the International Maritime Organization. Other chapters look at energy transition, green technology, and marine pollution from shipping.
Contributing to global discussions on sustainable development, this book will be of vital interest to scholars of the law of the sea, environmental law, and sustainable development.
Contents
List of Contributors
Preface
Alexander Proelss
Acknowledgement
Foreword
1 The "triple challenge" facing ocean law and governance
Nengye Liu and Shirley V. Scott
2 Global experimentalist governance and ocean acidification
Annika Frosch
3 Multi-ocean spaces and offshore wind energy
Gabriela Argüello
4 Regulating deep-sea mining for critical minerals: A "wicked problem" of the Anthropocene?
David Leary
5 The case for using Elinor Ostrom's studies on robustness
and adaptive governance to implement the BBNJ Agreement
Kristine Elfrida Dalaker
6 International fisheries as the "whale in the room" at the negotiations
for a new instrument for biodiversity beyond national jurisdiction
Ethan Beringen
7 The principle of common heritage of humankind as a bridge between deep
seabed mining and biodiversity conservation
Carina Costa de Oliveira, Harvey Mpoto Bombaka, and
Ana Flávia Barros-Platiau
8 Is international law fit for purpose for the green shipping
transition?
Ethan Beringen and Nengye Liu
9 Institutional compliance mechanisms for International
Maritime Organization treaties: Regime building for the next crisis
Rebecca Prentiss Pskowski
10 Developing Ocean Regimes for an Uncertain Future
Shirley V. Scott and Nengye Liu
Index
