Protecting the polar marine environment : law and policy for pollution prevention / edited by Davor Vidas.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Protecting the polar marine environment : interplay of regulatory frameworks / Davor Vidas -- Globalism and regionalism in the protection of the marine environment / Alan Boyle -- United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea and the polar marine environment / Budislav Vukas -- Global environmental protection instruments and the polar marine environment / Donald R. Rothwell -- The polar marine environment in regional cooperation / Davor Vidas -- Protection of the Antarctic environment against marine pollution under the 1991 Protocol / Christopher C. Joyner -- Sub-regional cooperation and protection of the Arctic marine environment : the Barents Sea / Olav Schram Stokke -- Domestic perspectives and regulations in protecting the polar marine environment : Australia, Canada and the United States / Donald R. Rothwell and Christopher C. Joyner -- Land-based marine pollution and the Arctic : polarities between principles and practice / David VanderZwaag -- Radioactive waste in the Barents and Kara Seas : Russian implementation of the global dumping regime / Olav Schram Stokke -- Regulation of navigation and vessel-source pollution in the Northern Sea route : Article 234 and state practice / R. Douglas Brubaker -- The emerging international Polar Navigation Code : bi-polar relevance: / Lawson W. Brigham.

How can we protect the polar marine environment against pollution? Leading scholars compare global, regional and national levels of regulation. Developments since the establishment of the Arctic Council in 1996 and the entry into force of the Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty in 1998 are also discussed.

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