The Law of the Sea and the Planetary Crisis

Nengye Liu, Shirley V. Scott

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2025
• Topic: Law
• eBook ISBN:
  9781040317174
• Subtopic: Maritime Law
• Index: Law

This book examines the challenge of negotiating and implementing new legal regimes addressing contemporary ocean challenges in the context of uncertain planetary futures.

The book covers the themes of climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution. Contributors examine a range of emerging, understudied issues, including the legal regulation of ocean acidification, the development of the mining code by the International Seabed Authority, the implementation of the 2023 Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction (BBNJ) Agreement, and compliance mechanisms developed by the International Maritime Organization. Other chapters look at energy transition, green technology, and marine pollution from shipping.

Contributing to global discussions on sustainable development, this book will be of vital interest to scholars of the law of the sea, environmental law, and sustainable development.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-Title
• Series
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of Contributors
• Preface
• Acknowledgement
• Foreword
• 1 The “triple challenge” facing ocean law and governance
• 2 Global experimentalist governance and ocean acidification
• 3 Multi-ocean spaces and offshore wind energy
• 4 Regulating deep-sea mining for critical minerals: A “wicked problem” of the Anthropocene?
• 5 The case for using Elinor Ostrom’s studies on robustness and adaptive governance to implement the BBNJ Agreement
• 6 International fisheries as the “whale in the room” at the negotiations for a new instrument for biodiversity beyond national jurisdiction
• 7 The principle of common heritage of humankind as a bridge between deep seabed mining and biodiversity conservation
• 8 Is international law fit for purpose for the green shipping transition?
• 9 Institutional compliance mechanisms for International Maritime Organization treaties: Regime building for the next crisis
• 10 Developing Ocean Regimes for an Uncertain Future
• Index