The Oceans and environmental security : shared US and Russian perspectives

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Broadus, James M., Contributor.

Vartanov, R. V, Contributor.

Marine Policy Center (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution), Content Provider.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Marine resources conservation--Law and legislation--Russia (Federation).

Marine resources conservation.

Marine pollution--Law and legislation--United States.

Marine pollution.

Environmental law, International--Transportation--Law and legislation.

Environmental law, International.

Hazardous substances--Law and legislation.

Hazardous substances.

Radioactive pollution of the sea.

Maritime law.

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] Island Press 1994

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The concept of environmental security, drawing on the widely understood notion of international strategic interdependence (in facing, for example, threats of nuclear war or economic collapse) is gaining currency as a way of thinking about international environmental management. In 1989, the Institute for World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Marine Policy Center of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution instituted a joint project to examine environmental security as it applies to the world's oceans. The Oceans and Environmental Security is a unified expression of their findings. The oceans, as global commons, are of central importance to issues of international environmental security. Critical problems are those that are likely to destabilize normal relations between nations and provoke international countermeasures. As such, the book focuses on seven specific concerns: * land-based marine pollution * North Pacific fisheries depletion * hazardous materials transport * nuclear contamination * the Arctic Ocean * the Southern Ocean and Antarctica * the Law of the Sea

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

1-61091-335-3