The world ocean in globalisation : climate change, sustainable fisheries, biodiversity, shipping, regional issues / edited by Davor Vidas, Peter Johan Schei.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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The world ocean in globalisation : challenges and responses for the anthropocene epoch / Davor Vidas and Peter Johan Schei -- The anthropocene ocean in its deep time context / Jan Zalasiewicz and Mark Williams -- Marine science in the past 25 years : main findings and trends / John Montgomery and Lionel Carter -- The sea, science and the human dimension / Marie Jacobsson -- Economic uses of the oceans and the impacts on marine environments : past trends and challenges ahead / Harry N. Scheiber -- Problems of high seas governance / David Freestone -- Impacts of climate change on marine ecosystems / Yvon Le Maho and Joël Durant -- The polar oceans and climate change / Olav Orheim -- Climate change and Arctic governance : three images of a changing Arctic / David D. Caron -- The climate regime : achievements and challenges / Steinar Andresen and Tora Skodvin -- Sea-level rise and the law of the sea : future options / Moritaka Hayashi -- High seas fisheries today : challenges and remedies under the global economy / Nobuyuki Yagi -- High seas fisheries governance : prospects and challenges in the 21st century / Kristina M. Gjerde -- High seas fisheries management : reflections on experience with regional fisheries management organisations in the South Pacific / Gerard van Bohemen -- Reducing seabird bycatch : from identifying problems to implementing policy / Euan Dunn -- Mare liberum or mare restrictum? : challenges for the maritime industry / Eelco Leemans and Thomas Rammelt -- Global shipping and the introduction of alien invasive species / Stephan Gollasch -- Globalisation and challenges for the maritime Arctic / Lawson W. Brigham -- The International Maritime Organization and the protection of the marine environment / Jean Claude Sainlos -- Regulatory layers in shipping / Henrik Ringbom -- Ballast water and alien species : regulating global transfers and regional consequences / Davor Vidas and Maja Markovčić Kostelac -- The European Union and the challenges of marine governance : from sectoral response to integrated policy? / Robin Churchill -- Towards further reform of the common fisheries policy / David J. Agnew -- The European Union and the regulation of underwater noise pollution / Irini Papanicolopulu -- The Black Sea : moving forward / Nilüfer Oral -- Baltic sea gas pipeline : international law for geostrategic issues / Hans Corell -- The Mediterranean response to global challenges : environmental governance and the Barcelona Convention system / Evangelos Raftopoulos.

This book addresses emerging challenges for the World Ocean in the Anthropocene epoch and the effects of increasing globalisation on the seas. The issues explored in particular include climate change, sustainable fisheries, biodiversity, shipping and regional seas adjoining Europe.

English.

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