Description
Marine mammal conservation remains a hot-button international environmental issue, but progress towards addressing key conservation and management issues within existing governance structures-most notably the International Whaling Commission-has stalled. Cameron Jefferies offers a fresh look at the future of international marine mammal management in a way that advances the ongoing dialog surrounding UNCLOS implementation and effective living marine resource management, while employing the comprehensive rational decision-making model as a theoretical framework.Marine Mammal Conservation and the Law of the Sea lays out and critiques the marine mammal regulatory landscape. It introduces the rational conservation model, and details the modern threats to marine mammals, including climate change, by-catch, environmental pollution, ship strikes. Next, it discusses options for reform under UNCLOS and existing treaties, and finally introduces a new holistic treaty regime based on the rational conversation model, based in part on the UN Fish Stocks Agreement. This book will appeal to scholars, practitioners, and policymakers across public international law, international relations, political science, and environmental policy in the academic, governmental, IO, and NGO spheres.
Table of Contents
Preface by John Norton MooreAcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsChapter 1 - IntroductionI. Unfinished BusinessII. Conservation, Sustainability, and Other Key TermsIII. Foundational WorksIV. The Global OceanV. Marine MammalsVI. ConclusionChapter 2 - The Current Marine Mammal Regulatory LandscapeI. Resource Type and Economic ConsiderationsII. Legal Foundation of International Ocean GovernanceIII. ConclusionChapter 3 - Goals for the Rational Conservation of Marine Mammalsand Emerging Ethical ConsiderationsI. Rational Decision-Making ModelII. Goals for Rational Marine Mammal ManagementIII. Ethical ConsiderationsIV. Conclusion 191Chapter 4 - Modern Threats to Marine MammalsI. Current Threats to Marine Mammals 193II. Features of a New Response 253III. Conclusion 254Chapter 5 - The Case for an Implementing Agreement Pursuant to Articles 65 and 120 of UNCLOS and the Creation of an International Marine Mammal CommissionI. Legally Justified Options for International MarineMammal ConservationII. UNCLOS Implementing AgreementsIII. The History and Interpretation of Articles 65 and 120 of UNCLOSIV. Treaty Termination and International Organization SuccessionV. Jurisdictional LimitsVI. ConclusionChapter 6 - The Proposal: Part I -- The Framework for a New ApproachI. IntroductionII. Constructing the Framework for a UN Marine Mammals AgreementIII. ConclusionChapter 7 - The Proposal: Part II - The Secretariat, Regionalism, and Marine Protected AreasI. IntroductionII. Institutional Structure & the SecretariatIII. RegionalismIV. Marine Protected AreasV. ConclusionChapter 8 - Concluding ThoughtsAppendicesAppendix 1: Extant and Recently Extinct Marine Mammal SpeciesAppendix 2: Ocean ZonesAppendix 3: Draft Agreement for the Implementation of the Provisions of theUnited Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea of 10 December 1982 Relating to the Conservation and Sustainable Management of Marine Mammals (Short form: UN Marine Mammals Agreement)Appendix 4: Structure of the Proposed International Regime for the Conservationof Marine MammalsIndex
