The Unruly Ocean

Dr Erika Techera is Professor of Law at The University of Western Australia. She researches on international and comparative environmental law, particularly oceans. She is a co-editor of the Routledge Handbook of International Environmental Law, 2021, and co-author of International Law of Sharks, 2017. Dr Joy McCann is an environmental historian affiliated with the University of Tasmania. Her research focuses on oceans, ice, islands and coastlines of the southern hemisphere, and her publications include Wild Sea: A History of the Southern Ocean, 2019.

Introduction

PART I – THE OCEAN AS TERRITORY

1. Undercurrents: Legal approaches and maritime concepts

2. Fluid boundaries: Shoreline borders and maritime zones

3. Disorder at sea: Piracy, war and illegality

PART II – THE OCEAN AS RESOURCE

4. An ‘inexhaustible’ bounty: Fishing and farming of marine life

5. Seafaring: Ships and shipping law

6. Disrupting the flow: Construction and extraction in the deep ocean

PART III – THE OCEAN AS ECOSYSTEM

7. The fragile ocean: Protecting species and ecosystems

8. Ocean space: protecting marine areas and regions

PART IV – THE OCEAN AS REPOSITORY

9. Overboard: Discharge, dumping and debris at sea

10. Shipwrecks to sea shanties: Safeguarding maritime cultural heritage

11. Ways of knowing: Ocean knowledge, research and data

PART V – THE OCEAN AS FUTURE

12. Anthropocene ocean: turning the tide of oceans governance