Routledge Handbook of National and Regional Ocean Policies (Routledge Environment and Sustainability Handbooks)

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Synopsis
This comprehensive handbook, prepared by leading ocean policy academics and practitioners from around the world, presents in-depth analyses of the experiences of fifteen developed and developing nations and four key regions of the world that have taken concrete steps toward cross-cutting and integrated national and regional ocean policy. All chapters follow a common framework for policy analysis. While most coastal nations of the world already have a variety of sectoral policies in place to manage different uses of the ocean (such as shipping, fishing, oil and gas development), in the last two decades, the coastal nations covered in the book have undertaken concerted efforts to articulate and implement an integrated, ecosystem-based vision for the governance of ocean areas under their jurisdiction. This includes goals and procedures to harmonize existing uses and laws, to foster sustainable development of ocean areas, to protect biodiversity and vulnerable resources and ecosystems, and to coordinate the actions of the many government agencies that are typically involved in oceans affairs. The book highlights the serious conflicts of use in most national ocean zones and the varying attempts by nations to follow the prescriptions emanating from the 1982 UN Law of the Sea Convention and the outcomes of the 1992, 2002, and 2012 sustainable development summits. The interrelationship among uses and processes in the coast and ocean requires that ocean governance be integrated, precautionary, and anticipatory. Overall, the book provides a definitive state-of-the-art review and analysis of national and regional ocean policies around the world.
Copyright:
2015

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Publisher Quality
Book Size:
640 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781317658054
Related ISBNs:
9781138788299, 9780815395461, 9781315765648
Publisher:
Taylor and Francis
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Copyrighted By:
Biliana Cicin-Sain, David L. VanderZwaag and Miriam C. Balgos, selection and editorial material
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No
Language:
English
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No
Categories:
Nonfiction, Science, Outdoors and Nature, Politics and Government
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This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:
Biliana Cicin-Sain
Edited by:
David Vanderzwaag
Edited by:
Miriam C. Balgos

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