Handbook on Ocean Politics and Law

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The first single-volume reference of its kind, this comprehensive handbook provides background information and analysis on the full range of contemporary ocean use issues. Coverage includes the development of ocean law, the evolving uses of oceans, data on living and non-living ocean resources, the environmental impact of pollution, and competing national claims over ocean exploration. The volume also summarizes the most current research available on the uses of oceans, incorporates the salient portions of the 1982 Law of the Sea Convention in the topical surveys and analyses presented, and discusses all of the other major international conventions that have dealt with global ocean or marine affairs. Students, researchers, and agency staff concerned with the political and legal dimensions of ocean use will find this an indispensable source. The handbook begins with an overview of the world's oceans and their physical and geographic features. The next two chapters survey the international conferences that have been held on ocean use and explore the historical development of international principles on the law of the sea. Ocean resources and their economic and political management form the focus of the following four chapters, with separate chapters on living and non-living resources and deep seabed mining. The final chapters address ocean environmental protection and pollution prevention and the implications of various uses of the ocean: military, navigation and transport, and marine scientific research. The text is accompanied by numerous charts and tables, end-of-chapter references, and seven appendixes which contain valuable supplemental information such as a chronological list of conventions and treaties on the law of the sea, national legislation on exclusive economic zones, bilateral fishery agreements, and more.

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This thorough compendium covers a wide range of ocean affairs topics including a global overview of the physical features of the oceans, a survey of international conferences on the law of the sea, living and nonliving resources of the ocean and their economic and political management, ocean environmental protection and pollution prevention, military uses of the ocean, navigation and transportation, and marine scientific research. A discussion of each topic is followed by a section on its significance, in which Wang, a professor of political science and author of Ocean Politics and Law: An Annotated Bibliography (Greenwood, 1991), expresses his own opinions and summarizes those of other scholars. Numerous maps, figures, charts, and tables are included (not seen). Each chapter is followed by bibliographical references, and a select bibliography and seven appendixes appear at the end. As the only one on the topic, it would also be useful as a one-volume source for collections that do not own monographs on specific aspects of maritime law. Suitable for collections in marine affairs, marine science, political science, and law. Written with intelligence and clarity, this handbook should prove a useful addition to oceanography reference book collections.-Library Journal Reference Book Review
Written with intelligence and clarity, this handbook should prove a useful addition to oceanography reference book collections.-Reference Book Review
"Written with intelligence and clarity, this handbook should prove a useful addition to oceanography reference book collections."-Reference Book Review
"This thorough compendium covers a wide range of ocean affairs topics including a global overview of the physical features of the oceans, a survey of international conferences on the law of the sea, living and nonliving resources of the ocean and their economic and political management, ocean environmental protection and pollution prevention, military uses of the ocean, navigation and transportation, and marine scientific research. A discussion of each topic is followed by a section on its significance, in which Wang, a professor of political science and author of Ocean Politics and Law: An Annotated Bibliography (Greenwood, 1991), expresses his own opinions and summarizes those of other scholars. Numerous maps, figures, charts, and tables are included (not seen). Each chapter is followed by bibliographical references, and a select bibliography and seven appendixes appear at the end. As the only one on the topic, it would also be useful as a one-volume source for collections that do not own monographs on specific aspects of maritime law. Suitable for collections in marine affairs, marine science, political science, and law. Written with intelligence and clarity, this handbook should prove a useful addition to oceanography reference book collections."-Library Journal Reference Book Review

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JAMES C.F. WANG is Professor of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Hawaii at Hilo. He has published a number of books on contemporary Chinese and Asian politics. He is a member of the Law of the Sea Institute and the Council on Ocean Law.