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The oceans in the nuclear age : legacies and risks /
The advent of the nuclear age in 1945 fundamentally altered the course of human events. The oceans are not the focus of the nuclear age, but the affairs of the oceans are deeply woven into the history of that age. Knowledge of what the nuclear age has meant for the oceans, however, is highly fragmen...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden, Netherlands :
Brill Nijhoff,
2014.
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| Edición: | Expanded edition. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface and Acknowledgements; Preface to the Expanded Edition; List of Treaties and Other Official Acts; List of Cases; Part One Introduction; Chapter One Assessing the Impact of the Nuclear Age on the Oceans and Its Legal Regime; Part Two Radioactive Wastes in the Oceans: Managing the Past and Considering the Future; Chapter Two Deep Sea Impacts; Chapter Three Risk and Vulnerability at Contaminated Sites in the Pacific and Australian Proving Grounds from a 'Long-Term Stewardship' Perspective:What Have We Learned?
- Chapter Four Legacies and Perils from the Perspective of the Republic of the Marshal Islands Nuclear Claims TribunalChapter Five The Legacy of French Nuclear Testing in the Pacific; Chapter Six Hazardous Substances and the Baltic Sea; Chapter Seven New Opportunities and Deep Ocean Technologies for Assessing the Feasibility of Sub-Seabed High-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal: The Application of 21st Century Oceanography to Solving Outstanding Problems; Chapter Eight Sub-Seabed Disposal of High Level Radioactive Waste :The Policy Context Then and Now.
- Part Three The Ocean Transport of Radioactive Fuel and WasteChapter Nine Ocean Transport of Radioactive Fuel and Waste; Chapter Ten Transportation of Radioactive Materials through the Caribbean Sea: The Developmentof a Nuclear-Free Zone; Chapter Eleven Ocean Transport of Radioactive Fuel and Waste: A Japanese Perspective; Chapter Twelve Navigation of Ships with Nuclear Cargoes: Dialogue between Flag and Coastal States as a Method for Managing the Dispute; Part Four Nuclear Weapons and Weapon Grade Material on the Oceans.
- Chapter Thirteen Maritime Terrorism and the International Law of Boarding of Vessels at Sea: A Brief Assessment of the New DevelopmentsChapter Fourteen The Proliferation Security Initiative and Asia; Chapter Fifteen The Proliferation Security Initiative: Amending the Convention on the Law of the Sea by Stealth?; Chapter Sixteen Cargoes of Doom: National Strategies of the U.S. to Combat the Illicit Transport of Weapons of Mass Destruction by Sea; Chapter Seventeen Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zones and Maritime Transit of Nuclear Weapons.
- Chapter Eighteen Oceans in a Nuclear Age: Security Concerns of the United StatesAppendix A United Nations Security Council Resolution 1540 (2004); Appendix B Interdiction Principles for the Proliferation Security Initiative; Appendix C The Combating Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction Act; Part Five Nuclear Activities and Radioactive Waste in the Arctic; Chapter Nineteen Canada, The United States and the Northwest Passage; Chapter Twenty The Russian Approach to the Protection of the Arctic Seas from Radioactive Wastes; Chapter Twenty-One Arctic Nuclear Pollution.