Protecting the Polar Marine Environment
Law and Policy for Pollution Prevention

Comparative analysis of regulations in protecting the Arctic and Antarctic against pollution.

Davor Vidas (Edited by)

9780521663113, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 23 November 2000

300 pages, 2 maps
22.9 x 15.2 x 2.1 cm, 0.623 kg

'… the volume recommends itself for combining updated information with thought-provoking analysis, as was to be expected from the leading legal authorities in polar or marine issues who contributed to it.' Journal of Polar Record

How can we best protect the polar marine environment against pollution? Leading scholars on environmental law, the law of the sea, and Arctic and Antarctic affairs here examine this important question. To what extent do existing global instruments of environmental protection apply to the Arctic Ocean and the Southern Ocean? Can the arrangements adopted at regional, sub-regional and national levels provide adequate protection? This book examines and compares various levels of regulation in protecting the marine environment of the Arctic and Antarctic, with specific attention to land-based activities, radioactive waste dumping, and shipping in ice-covered waters. Developments since the establishment of the Arctic Council in 1996 and the entry into force of the Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty in 1998 are also discussed. This is a volume that will appeal to polar specialists and to all those interested in environmental law and policy.

List of figures
List of tables
Notes on the contributors
Preface and acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
Introductory overview. Protecting the polar marine environment: interplay of regulatory frameworks Davor Vidas
Part I. Levels of Regulation in the Protection of the Polar Marine Environment: 1. Globalism and regionalism in the protection of the marine environment Alan Boyle
2. United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea and the polar marine environment Budislav Vukas
3. Global environmental protection instruments and the polar marine environment Donald R. Rothwell
4. The polar marine environment in regional cooperation Davor Vidas
5. Protection of the Antarctic environment against marine pollution under the 1991 Protocol Christopher C. Joyner
6. Sub-regional cooperation and protection of the Arctic marine environment: the Barents Sea Olav Schram Stokke
7. Domestic perspectives and regulations in protecting the polar marine environment: Australia, Canada and the United States Donald R. Rothwell and Christopher C. Joyner
Part II. Current Trends and Issues in Protecting the Polar Marine Environment: 8. Land-based marine pollution and the Arctic: polarities between principles and practice David VanderZwaag
9. Radioactive waste in the Barents and Kara Seas: Russian implementation of the global dumping regime Olav Schram Stokke
10. Regulation of navigation and vessel-source pollution in the Northern Sea Route: article 234 and state practice R. Douglas Brubaker
11. The emerging International Polar Navigation Code: bi-polar relevance? Lawson W. Brigham
Index of international instruments and national legislation
Subject index.

Subject Areas: International environmental law [LBBP]