This important Research Handbook provides a guide to navigating the tangled array of laws and policies available to counter the ominous threats of ocean acidification. It investigates the limitations and opportunities for addressing ocean acidification under national, regional and global governance frameworks, including multilateral environmental agreements, law of the sea and human rights instruments.

This authoritative Research Handbook offers wide-ranging coverage of both traditional and emerging topics dealing with the regulation of ocean space and highlights the key academic debates around ocean governance. It provides a formidable interface between the 1982 UNCLOS Convention and the international law regulating ocean governance, while influencing its further evolution through suggestions for future research in the field.

This wholly new edition of the Handbook provides an authoritative examination of international law relating to the protection of the marine environment. Chapters critically engage with current legal issues surrounding activities that harm the marine environment, including marine pollution, seabed activities, exploitation of marine biodiversity and climate change, and with the different legal tools and mechanisms, including environmental impact assessments and compliance and dispute settlement mechanisms, used to protect the marine environment. New chapters also address legal issues relating to the role of technology and marine scientific research as well as the application of principles such as public participation. This title contains one or more Open Access chapters.

The Washington Journal of Environmental Law and Policy is proud to present this special issue dedicated to the critical topic of ocean acidification. Featuring scholarship by leading academics and professionals in fields ranging from conservation and marine sciences to environmental law, this handbook aims to equip legal practitioners with a comprehensive understanding of the complex issues presented by ocean acidification. This issue features analysis of domestic and international legal schemes, including the Clean Air Act, the public trust doctrine, and federal treaty and trust-created obligations to American Indian tribes. Eminent authors featured in this issue include: - Dr. Terrie Klinger and Dr. Jan Newton, co-directors of the Washington Ocean Acidification Center; - Professor Mary Christina Wood, Philip H. Knight Professor of Law at University of Oregon; - Professor Robert. T. Anderson, Professor of Law and Director of the Native American Law Center at the University of Washington School of Law, and the Oneida Indian Nation Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School; - Professor William H. Rodgers, Stimson Bullitt Endowed Professor of Environmental Law, and Andrea Rodgers, public interest environmental attorney for the Western Environmental Law Center. The Washington Journal of Environmental Law and Policy is a student organization dedicated to the advancement of interdisciplinary scholarship in the field of environmental law. Partnering with the University of Washington Environmental Law Program, the Journal hosts the Annual University of Washington Environmental Law Symposium. The symposium brings together influential scholars, attorneys, policy makers, and others to discuss and develop solutions to an important issue in environmental law. The Journal then publishes an annual special issue expanding upon the same topic.

This timely Research Handbook explores the concept of polar law as a coherent body of law and as a set of rules and principles that applies to both the Arctic and Antarctic. It captures the evolution of polar law and policy, identifying future directions for research in this emerging and growing field.

Provides clear, systematic and comprehensive coverage of fundamental and contemporary issues of the law of the sea.

This expanded and updated Research Handbook delivers an authoritative and in-depth guide to the conceptual foundations of environmental law. It offers a nuanced reflection on the underlying principles by exploring issues such as human rights, constitutional rights, sustainable development and environmental impact assessment within the context of environmental law.