ABSTRACT
This comprehensive handbook, prepared by leading ocean policy academics and practitioners from around the world, presents in-depth analyses of the experiences of fifteen developed and developing nations and four key regions of the world that have taken concrete steps toward cross-cutting and integrated national and regional ocean policy.
All chapters follow a common framework for policy analysis. While most coastal nations of the world already have a variety of sectoral policies in place to manage different uses of the ocean (such as shipping, fishing, oil and gas development), in the last two decades, the coastal nations covered in the book have undertaken concerted efforts to articulate and implement an integrated, ecosystem-based vision for the governance of ocean areas under their jurisdiction. This includes goals and procedures to harmonize existing uses and laws, to foster sustainable development of ocean areas, to protect biodiversity and vulnerable resources and ecosystems, and to coordinate the actions of the many government agencies that are typically involved in oceans affairs.
The book highlights the serious conflicts of use in most national ocean zones and the varying attempts by nations to follow the prescriptions emanating from the 1982 UN Law of the Sea Convention and the outcomes of the 1992, 2002, and 2012 sustainable development summits. The interrelationship among uses and processes in the coast and ocean requires that ocean governance be integrated, precautionary, and anticipatory. Overall, the book provides a definitive state-of-the-art review and analysis of national and regional ocean policies around the world.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |2 pages
PART I Introduction
part |2 pages
PART II National Ocean Policies
chapter |45 pages
Oceans Policy: A Canadian Case Study
chapter |30 pages
Australia’s Oceans Policy
chapter |24 pages
Brazil’s National Ocean Policy
chapter |23 pages
Jamaica’s Oceans and Coastal Policy
chapter |11 pages
Development of National Ocean Policy in Japan
chapter |17 pages
Development of a National Ocean Policy in Mexico
chapter |37 pages
Development of a National Ocean Policy in the United States
chapter |13 pages
Toward an Integrated Policy for the Ocean in Portugal
chapter |32 pages
Toward a National Ocean Policy in New Zealand
chapter |23 pages
Norway’s Marine Policy: Toward Comprehensive Oceans Management
chapter |28 pages
The Philippine National Marine Policy
chapter |18 pages
National Marine Policy: A Vietnamese Case Study
chapter |31 pages
A Case Study of India’s Policy and Legal Regimes on Ocean Governance
part |2 pages
PART III Regional Ocean Policies