Research Handbook on Ocean Governance Law

Edited by Simone Borg, Professor, Head of Department of Environmental Law and Resources Law, Felicity G. Attard, Lecturer, Department of International Law and Patricia Mallia Vella de Fremeaux, Associate Professor, Head of Department of International Law, Faculty of Laws, University of Malta, Malta

Contents:

Foreword xiv
David Joseph Attard
Preface and acknowledgements xvi
List of abbreviations xvii
Introduction to the Research Handbook on Ocean Governance Law 1
Simone Borg, Patricia Mallia Vella de Fremeaux and Felicity G. Attard

PART I THE BLUE SPACE
1 A 50-year reflection on global ocean governance for protection of the
marine environment 10
Nilüfer Oral
2 Maritime zones in international law 24
Danilo García Cáceres
3 Airspace, sovereignty and ocean governance 47
Roberto Cassar
4 Marine scientific research as a tool for ocean governance 59
Norman A. Martínez Gutiérrez
5 Dispute settlement and ocean governance 72
Vladyslav Lanovoy

PART II THE BLUE PLANET
6 The International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from
Ships (MARPOL) 91
Malgosia Fitzmaurice
7 Land-based sources of marine pollution and dumping at sea 109
Meagan Wong and Niccolò Lanzoni
8 Ocean pollution from plastics 128
Jyothi Thomas
9 Noise pollution in the marine environment 151
Georgia Veldeki
10 Conservation of living marine resources 162
Elda Kazara-Belja

PART III THE INTEGRATED APPROACH FOR SUSTAINABLE
OCEAN GOVERNANCE
11 Ocean governance in an era of climate change 179
Simone Borg
12 Implementing the ecosystem approach through area-based management 205
Daniela Diz
13 The interaction between an Agreement on Biodiversity Beyond
National Jurisdiction and the law of the sea 220
David M. Ong

PART IV THE BLUE ECONOMY
14 Towards a more inclusive, systemic and multi-regulatory Blue
Economy: the case of offshore wind energy 267
Sandra Cassotta
15 Advancing a sustainable Blue Economy – case study: fisheries
governance in the Indian Ocean 283
Erika Techera
16 The submarine cable systems and landing stations in international law 295
Danilo García Cáceres
17 Carriage of goods by sea 316
Richard L. Kilpatrick, Jr.
18 The cultural heritage at sea 325
Ángeles Jiménez García-Carriazo

PART V THE HUMAN SEA
19 Piracy and armed robbery 337
Andrew Mallia
20 Maritime terrorism and trafficking in weapons of mass destruction 348
John Hursh
21 Smuggling of migrants and trafficking in persons by sea 363
Patricia Mallia Vella De Fremeaux and Felicity G. Attard
22 Human rights at sea 381
Irini Papanicolopulu
Bibliography 396

Index