Protecting the Polar Marine Environment

List of figures; List of tables; Notes on the contributors; Preface and acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Introductory overview. Protecting the polar marine environment: interplay of regulatory frameworks Davor Vidas; Part I. Levels of Regulation in the Protection of the Polar Marine Environment: 1. Globalism and regionalism in the protection of the marine environment Alan Boyle; 2. United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea and the polar marine environment Budislav Vukas; 3. Global environmental protection instruments and the polar marine environment Donald R. Rothwell; 4. The polar marine environment in regional cooperation Davor Vidas; 5. Protection of the Antarctic environment against marine pollution under the 1991 Protocol Christopher C. Joyner; 6. Sub-regional cooperation and protection of the Arctic marine environment: the Barents Sea Olav Schram Stokke; 7. Domestic perspectives and regulations in protecting the polar marine environment: Australia, Canada and the United States Donald R. Rothwell and Christopher C. Joyner; Part II. Current Trends and Issues in Protecting the Polar Marine Environment: 8. Land-based marine pollution and the Arctic: polarities between principles and practice David VanderZwaag; 9. Radioactive waste in the Barents and Kara Seas: Russian implementation of the global dumping regime Olav Schram Stokke; 10. Regulation of navigation and vessel-source pollution in the Northern Sea Route: article 234 and state practice R. Douglas Brubaker; 11. The emerging International Polar Navigation Code: bi-polar relevance? Lawson W. Brigham; Index of international instruments and national legislation; Subject index.