This comprehensive handbook provides a detailed and unique overview of current thinking about marine governance in the context of global environmental change.
Many of the most profound impacts of global environmental change, and climate change in particular, will occur in the oceans. It is vital that we consider the role of marine governance in adapting to and mitigating these impacts. This comprehensive handbook provides a thorough review of current thinking about marine environmental governance, including law and policy, in the context of global environmental change. Initial chapters describe international law, regimes, and leadership in marine environmental governance, in the process considering how existing regimes for climate change and the oceans should and can be coordinated. This is followed by an exploration of the role of non-state actors, including scientists, nongovernmental organisations, and corporations. The next section includes a collection of chapters highlighting governance schemes in a variety of marine environments and regions, including coastlines, islands, coral reefs, the open ocean, and regional seas. Subsequent chapters examine emerging issues in marine governance, including plastic pollution, maritime transport, sustainable development, environmental justice, and human rights.
Providing a definitive overview, the Routledge Handbook of Marine Governance and Global Environmental Change is suitable for advanced students in marine and environmental governance, environmental law and policy, and climate change, as well as practitioners, activists, stakeholders, and others concerned about the world’s oceans and seas.
Author(s): Paul G. Harris
Series: Routledge Environment and Sustainability Handbooks
Publisher: Routledge/Earthscan
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 341
City: London
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of figures
List of tables
List of Contributors
PART I: Introduction
1 The growing challenge for marine governance: global environmental change
PART II: International law, regimes, and leadership in marine environmental governance
2 The global oceans regime: the law of the sea and beyond
3 The climate-oceans nexus: oceans in the climate regime, climate in the oceans regime
4 The legal implications of ocean acidification: beyond the climate change regime
5 Regimes for ocean management: Regional seas programmes and blue carbon ecosystems
6 Blue dimensions of the European Green Deal: climate action at sea
7 Leadership: actors and their strategies in marine environmental governance
PART III: Non-state actors in marine environmental governance
8 Experts: scientific knowledge for ocean protection
9 Civil society: nongovernmental organisations, public opinion, and individuals
10 Private governance: the case of Marine Stewardship Council certification in Russia
11 Private-sector investors: climate action and blue carbon financing
PART IV: Governing marine environments and regions
12 Vulnerable nations and communities: accounting for those most dependent on the seas
13 Coastlines and nearshore habitats: interactive governance in an era of global environmental change
14 Islands: rising seas, vulnerable shorelines, and territorial integrity
15 Coral reefs: the case for ecological reflexivity
16 Fisheries and aquaculture in Southeast Asia: managing the impacts of climate change
17 The Baltic Sea and global environmental change: best-in-class governance?
18 Governance of the Black Sea: institutional arrangements for managing the impacts of global environmental change
19 Polar seas: governing extreme change in the Arctic and Southern Oceans
20 Oil pollution and black carbon in the Arctic: dynamic shipping governance in a rapidly warming region
21 The high seas: adapting to changes in pelagic ecosystems
PART V: Emerging issues in environmentally sustainable marine governance
22 Plastic pollution: the challenges of uncertainty and multiplicity in global marine governance
23 Maritime commerce and transport: the imperfect match between climate change and the International Maritime Organization
24 Global change and the development of sustainable floating cities: regulatory and legal implications
25 Oceans and seas for sustainable development: challenges of global environmental change for SDG14
26 Ethics, justice, and human rights: normative considerations in marine environmental change
PART VI: Conclusion
27 Prospects for marine governance in the Anthropocene: portents from the climate regime
Index
