Regulatory Framework and Integrated Marine Management
A special issue of Journal of Marine Science and Engineering (ISSN 2077-1312).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 July 2019)
Special Issue Editors
Interests: oceans governance; corporate environmental accoutability; natural resource development; the rights of indigenous peoples and local communities; marine biodiversity; fair and equitable benefit sharing; seabed mining
Interests: ecosystem and precautionary approach in the marine context; equitable and sustainable fisheries; area-based conservation tools; vulnerable marine ecosystems; marine protected areas; ecologically or biologically significant marine areas
Interests: marine spatial planning; ecosystem approach; access to justice; technology transfer
Interests: fisheries; marine biodiversity; climate change impacts on the marine environment; IUU fishing; interactions between science and environmental law; dispute settlement under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
“A Vision for Ocean Law and Governance for 2020–2030 and Beyond” provides a venue for academics and practitioners researching and working on the law of the sea to present and discuss the latest issues in international law and the protection of the marine environment. Prospective authors are invited to submit papers on a wide range of topics, including the threats from climate change, marine pollution, habitat destruction and overfishing or the international oceans governance framework, which needs to be adaptive, responsive and resilient. Those are important, given that 2020 is expected to be the year in which the Mining Code of the International Seabed Authority will be completed with new exploitation regulations, and because most of the targets of UN Sustainable Development Goal 14 (Conserve and sustainable use of the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development) are due in 2020–25, among others.
This Special Issue presents a selection of papers from the “A Vision for Ocean Law and Governance for 2020–2030” conference at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, that provides insight into the current research and highlights areas where further research is required. The aim of this Special Issue is to convey cutting-edge legal questions that concern the marine environment to a non-specialist audience, with a view to stimulating meaningful and progressive academic discussion on how to adequately manage these issues.
Please note that papers may only be submitted by delegates who chose to participate in Strathclyde Centre for Environmental Law and Governance’s Conference “A Vision for Ocean Law and Governance 2020–2030 and Beyond.” Details on how to register can be found here: https://www.strath.ac.uk/research/strathclydecentreenvironmentallawgovernance/events/conferences/avisionforoceanlawandgovernancefor2020-2030andbeyond/
Prof. Elisa Morgera
Dr. Daniela Diz
Dr. Mara Ntona
Dr. Mitchell Lennan
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- International law
- Law of the sea
- Protection of the marine environment
- Habitat destruction
- Fisheries
- Oceans governance framework
- Biodiversity beyond national jurisdiction
- Small-scale fisheries
- Illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing
- Marine spatial planning
- Marine environment
- Shipping
- Pollution
- Arctic
- Polar issues
- Fair and equitable benefit sharing
- Ecologically or biologically significant marine areas
- Seabed mining
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