Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- 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
- PART I LEVELS OF REGULATION IN THE PROTECTION OF THE POLAR MARINE ENVIRONMENT
- PART II CURRENT TRENDS AND ISSUES IN PROTECTING THE POLAR MARINE ENVIRONMENT
- Index of international instruments and national legislation
- Subject index
Protecting the polar marine environment: interplay of regulatory frameworks
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
- Protecting the polar marine environment: interplay of regulatory frameworks
- PART I LEVELS OF REGULATION IN THE PROTECTION OF THE POLAR MARINE ENVIRONMENT
- PART II CURRENT TRENDS AND ISSUES IN PROTECTING THE POLAR MARINE ENVIRONMENT
- Index of international instruments and national legislation
- Subject index
Summary
Recent years have witnessed important developments that affect the polar regions of our globe, as well as their marine environments. In 1998, the Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty came into force, and entered the phase of implementation. As to the Arctic, the post-ColdWar decade of regional collaboration has resulted in various outcomes as well: in particular the 1997–8 publication bythe Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP) of the two Arctic Pollution Issues reports, and the current development of an Arctic Council Action Plan to Eliminate Pollution of the Arctic – though with some stillpending options for a follow-up on the level of regional policy. At the global level, vital developments have been the entry into force of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, with increasingly universal participation of states, as well as the emergence of other global instruments and arrangements relevant to the polar marine environment.
This book has been prompted largely by those developments. We wish to examine various approaches to protecting the polar marine environment – at the global, regional, sub-regional and domestic levels – and their actual application in selected issue-areas of marine pollution in polar oceans. Let us begin by posing some basic questions.
In respect of the various global instruments of environmental protection: to what extent are they applicable to the Arctic Ocean and the Southern Ocean?
In respect of the more specific arrangements worked out at the regional, sub-regional or national level: are they sufficient?
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- Protecting the Polar Marine EnvironmentLaw and Policy for Pollution Prevention, pp. 3 - 16Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2000