Overview
High Seas Governance: Gaps and Challenges identifies gaps in and challenges to the existing legal regime in the protection and preservation of the marine environment of the high seas, including sensitive marine areas. The gaps identified in the book include the failure of liability and compensation schemes to cover pollution of the high seas and the fact that no state has the responsibility to clean up pollution of the high seas. One common theme of the book is that it is necessary to identify a state other than flag states, port states or coastal states, which should have an obligation to exercise jurisdiction and control over certain activities on the high seas.
Full Product Details
Author: Robert C. Beckman ,
Millicent McCreath ,
J. Ashley Roach ,
Zhen Sun
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Martinus Nijhoff
Volume: 86
Weight: 0.653kg
ISBN: 9789004373310
ISBN 10: 9004373314
Pages: 318
Publication Date: 29 November 2018
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
The editors observe that UNCLOS is intended to regulate all uses of the sea (id.). The way it does so is illustrated by the chapters that follow. One finds citations to substantive provisions of UNCLOS (including its implementation agreements), decisions and advisory opinions rendered under its dispute settlement provisions, and actions of the International Seabed Authority established by UNCLOS. There are also citations to the rich corpus of treaties, regulations, and guidelines promulgated by or under the auspices of competent international and regional organizations established by other instruments to which UNCLOS entrusts much of its detailed implementation; some of those measures are in turn incorporated by reference into UNCLOS. There is not only a multiplicity of functional regimes in the law of the sea but a multiplicity of international and regional organizations with responsibilities for different types of activities. Such functional allocation of responsibilities is hardly unique to international institutions. But it can pose challenges in implementing environmental objectives directed to particular outcomes...More than one chapter of the book helpfully explores how coordinated responses have emerged and can be encouraged. What then are the gaps ? Do they relate to the legal regime established in UNCLOS regarding the high seas or to the governance of the high seas with respect to the preservation and protection of the marine environment? What should we do about them? With what priority? The authors of the essays in this book know their topics well. For them, these are not simple questions. These questions may not even be the most pressing ones. - American Journal of International Law (Vol. 114, no. 4, October 2020)
Author Information
Robert C. Beckman, LL.M., is the Head of the Ocean Law and Policy programme and the former Director of the Centre for International Law, National University of Singapore. He has published widely on ocean law and policy issues. Millicent McCreath, LL.M., is a Research Associate with the Ocean Law and Policy Programme at the Centre for International Law, National University of Singapore. J. Ashley Roach, LL.M. is the Visiting Senior Principal Research Fellow with the Ocean Law and Policy Programme at the Centre for International Law, National University of Singapore. He was attorney in the Office of the Legal Adviser, U.S. Department of State, and has published widely on law of the sea issues. Zhen Sun, Ph.D., is a Research Fellow with the Ocean Law and Policy Programme at the Centre for International Law, National University of Singapore. She has published several articles and chapters on the law of the sea.
