Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Notes on the contributors
- Preface and acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- INTRODUCTORY OVERVIEW
- PART I LEVELS OF REGULATION IN THE PROTECTION OF THE POLAR MARINE ENVIRONMENT
- 1 Globalism and regionalism in the protection of the marine environment
- 2 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea and the polar marine environment
- 3 Global environmental protection instruments and the polar marine environment
- 4 The polar marine environment in regional cooperation
- 5 Protection of the Antarctic environment against marine pollution under the 1991 Protocol
- 6 Sub-regional cooperation and protection of the Arctic marine environment: the Barents Sea
- 7 Domestic perspectives and regulations in protecting the polar marine environment: Australia, Canada and the United States
- PART II CURRENT TRENDS AND ISSUES IN PROTECTING THE POLAR MARINE ENVIRONMENT
- Index of international instruments and national legislation
- Subject index
7 - Domestic perspectives and regulations in protecting the polar marine environment: Australia, Canada and the United States
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 August 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Notes on the contributors
- Preface and acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- INTRODUCTORY OVERVIEW
- PART I LEVELS OF REGULATION IN THE PROTECTION OF THE POLAR MARINE ENVIRONMENT
- 1 Globalism and regionalism in the protection of the marine environment
- 2 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea and the polar marine environment
- 3 Global environmental protection instruments and the polar marine environment
- 4 The polar marine environment in regional cooperation
- 5 Protection of the Antarctic environment against marine pollution under the 1991 Protocol
- 6 Sub-regional cooperation and protection of the Arctic marine environment: the Barents Sea
- 7 Domestic perspectives and regulations in protecting the polar marine environment: Australia, Canada and the United States
- PART II CURRENT TRENDS AND ISSUES IN PROTECTING THE POLAR MARINE ENVIRONMENT
- Index of international instruments and national legislation
- Subject index
Summary
The protection of the marine polar environment has increasingly become a matter of concern for Antarctic Treaty Consultative Parties and Arctic states alike, as evident in the developments in the legal regimes which apply to the polar regions. In the case of the Antarctic Treaty System, attention has focused on the protection of the marine environment of the Southern Ocean through a combination of measures adopted at Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meetings and also through the 1991 Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty. In the Arctic, concerns over the protection of the marine environment have been driven by the present and possible environmental consequences of land-based marine pollution, nuclear waste and the potentials for increased oil and gas exploitation as well as navigation through Arctic waters, especially by the Northwest Passage and the Northern Sea Route. Particular emphasis has been placed on Arctic marine environmental protection in the process of development and implementation of the Arctic Environmental Protection Strategy (AEPS), since 1991, and, since 1996, within the Arctic Council.
This chapter addresses these issues by considering how prominent polar states have influenced developments on the international scene while also seeking to implement through domestic policy and law a range of international responses aimed at protecting the polar marine environment. The aim is thus to demonstrate the importance of the domestic level, in both initiative-giving and in implementing commitments agreed through international cooperative fora or processes.
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- Protecting the Polar Marine EnvironmentLaw and Policy for Pollution Prevention, pp. 149 - 172Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2000
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