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Marine Environmental Governance : From International Law to Local Practice.
Marine Environmental Governance: From International Law to Local Practice considers the relationship between international environmental law and community-based management of marine areas. Focusing on small island states, in which Indigenous populations have to a large extent continued to maintain t...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken : Francis,
Taylor & amp ;
2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Marine Environmental Governance; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Table of cases; Table of treaties and otherinternational instruments; Table of national legislation; 1. Introduction; Background; From global to local approaches; The Pacific context; An overview of the book; Conclusion; 2. Sustainable development: theory, practice and law; Introduction; The backdrop to sustainable development; Historical background; The environmental movement and the natural world; Sustainable development and western environmental ethics.
- International law and sustainable developmentThe origin of the concept of sustainable development; What is sustainable development?; Sustainable development law; Key principles of sustainable development; The duty to ensure sustainable use of natural resources; The principle of equity and the eradication of poverty; The principle of common but differentiated responsibilities; The precautionary principle; Public participation and access to information and justice; The principle of good governance; The principle of integration; Achieving sustainable development.
- Plans and approaches to implementationLegal support for localised approaches; The benefits of localised approaches; Indigenous communities, human rights and sustainable development; Synergies for sustainable development; Conclusion; 3. Marine environmental law, fisheries and small island states; Introduction; International marine environmental law; The ancient law of the sea; The conferences on the law of the sea; UNCLOS; Post-UNCLOS; The Convention on Biological Diversity; Other international agreements; Regional approaches to oceans governance; UNEP and the Regional Seas Programme.
- The FAO and fisheries managementThe International Waters Programme; Marine environmental protection in the South Pacific; Marine resources of the Pacific island region; Regional institutions and actors; Regional treaties and programmes; Trends in the management of inshore resources; Conclusion; 4. Communities and conservation; Introduction; Community-based environmental management; Background; Emergence of community-based approaches; Property and resource rights; International efforts to conserve biodiversity; Other conceptual bases for community-based approaches; From theory to practice.
- BackgroundCharacteristics for success; The role of law in community-based management; Conclusion; 5. Customary law and post-colonial societies; Introduction; Law and custom; What is law?; Defining customary law; Further perspectives on law; Acknowledging customary law; Theoretical bases for recognition; Legal pluralism; Environmental justice; International law, human rights and Indigenous peoples; The formal recognition of customary law; Approaches; The status of customary law in the Fiji Islands, Samoa and Vanuatu; Customary law and natural resource management; Conclusion.