Description
- examines the impact and implications of Japan's withdrawal from the International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling (ICRW)
- provides backgrounds and commentaries on this decision as well as normative and legal discussions on matters relating to sustainable use of resources
- will be of great interest to students and scholars of environmental law and governance, biodiversity conservation and sustainable development, as well as policymakers involved in international environmental and conservation agreements.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction
Nikolas Sellheim
Joji Morishita
2. A memoir – Japan’s Road to Withdrawal from the International Whaling Commission (IWC)
Joji Morishita
Part I — Institutional implications
3. Exit Japan, exit IWC?
Steinar Andresen
David Aarvik Nese
4. As one door closes, does another open? Assessing the future of the protectionist agenda at the International Whaling Commission post-Japan’s withdrawal
Cameron Jefferies
Heather Stock
5. ’Opening up a procedure’: Might the re-adherence of Iceland to the International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling in 2002 provide an example for Japan to follow?
Ed Couzens
6. Spill-over? CITES after Japan’s withdrawal from the Whaling Convention — a focus on Namibia and the SADC countries
Nikolas Sellheim
Part II — Cultural considerations
Indigenous Whaling post-Japanese IWC Withdrawal
Malgosia Fitzmaurice
Agnes Rydberg
8. Lessons from the 1982 Canadian IWC Withdrawal and Restoration of Inuit Bowhead Hunting for Japan’s 2019 IWC Withdrawal and Restoration of Coastal Whaling
Barry Scott Zellen
9. Whales as ‘sacred’ and ‘profane’ in IWC member state cultures
Nikolas Sellheim
Part III — Perspectives
10. The Commercial Impacts of Japan’s Withdrawal from the ICRW — A Commentary
Gavin Carter
11. Whales on the Rise, the IWC Demise, and Global Environmental Diplomacy: An Epilogue to the Whaling Wars — A Commentary
José Truda Palazzo, Jr.
