Introduction
Hance D. Smith, Juan Luis Suárez de Vivero and Tundi S. Agardy
1. The World Ocean and the Human Past and Present
Hance D. Smith, Juan Luis Suárez de Vivero and Tundi S. Agardy
Part 1: The World Ocean
The Globalisation of Governance
2. Changing Geopolitical Scenarios
Juan Luis Suárez de Vivero, Juan Carlos Rodríguez Mateos, David Florido del Corral and Fernando Fernández Fadón
3. State Ocean Strategies and Policies for the Open Ocean
Patricio Bernal
4. International Marine Governance and Protection of Biodiversity
Jeff A. Ardron and Robin Warner
5. Regional Ecosystem-based Imperatives within Global Ocean Governance
Lee A. Kimball
Understanding Marine Environments
6. Blue Planet: the Role of the Oceans in Nutrient Cycling, Maintaining the Atmospheric System, and Modulating Climate Change
Susan Libes
7. Ocean Health
Fiorenza Micheli et al.
8. Marine Scientific Research: Overview of Major Issues, Programmes and their Objectives
Montserrat Gorina-Ysern
Managing Marine Environments
9. Marine Conservation
Guiseppe Notarbartolo-di-Sciara
10. Science and Policy
Rebecca Koss and Geoffrey Westcott
11. Ecosystem Services and their Economic and Social Value
Jason Scorse and Judith Kildow
12. Strategic Environmental Assessment
Richard Kenchington and Toni Cannard
13. Greening the Ocean Economy: Balancing our Oceans' Living and Non-living Resources
Linwood Pendleton et al.
Part 2: The Uses of the Sea
Living Resources
14. Global Fisheries: Current Situation and Challenges
Yimin Ye
15 The High Seas and IUU (Illegal, Unregulated, Unreported) Fishing
Henrik Österblom, Örjan Bodin, Anthony J. Press and U. Rashid Sumaila
16. Re-thinking Small-scale Fisheries Governance
Ratana Chuenpagdee and Svein Jentoft
17. Mariculture: Aquaculture in the Marine Environment
Selina Stead
Energy and Materials
18. Oil and Gas
Hance D. Smith and Tara Thrupp
19. Renewables: An Ocean of Energy
Sean O'Neill, Carolyn Elefant and Tundi Agardy
20. Ocean Minerals
James R. Hein and Kira Mizell
21. Making Progress with Marine Genetic Resources
Salvatore Aricò
Ocean Space
22. Shipping and Navigation
Jeanette Reis and Kyriaki Mitroussi
23. Subsea Telecommunications
Lionel Carter and Douglas R. Burnett
24. Seapower
Steven Haines
The Marine Environment
25. Waste Disposal and Ocean Pollution
Michael O. Angelidis
26. Marine Leisure and Tourism
Michael Lück
27. Maritime Heritage Conservation
Juan-Luís Alagret and Eilseu Carbonell
Part 3: The Geography of the Sea
Spatial Organisation
28. State Maritime Boundaries
Chris M. Carleton
29. The Deep Seabed: Legal and Political Challenges
Tulio Scovazzi
30. Surveying the Sea
Robert Wilson
31. Marine Protected Areas and Marine Spatial Planning
Tundi S. Agardy
Regional Developments: Key Core Maritime Regions
32. Maritime Boundaries: the Mediterranean Exception
Juan Luis Suárez de Vivero and Juan Carlos Rodríguez Mateos
33. Marine Spatial Planning in the United States: Triangulating between State and Federal Roles and Responsibilities
Stephen B. Olsen, Jennifer McCann and Monique LaFrance
34. The East Asian Seas: Competing National Spheres of Influence
Sam Bateman
Regional Developments: The Developing Periphery
35. Africa: Coastal Policies, Maritime Strategies and Development
Francois Odendaal et al.
36. South Pacific and Small Island Developing States: Oceania is Vast, Canoe is Centre, Village is Anchor, Continent is Margin
Peter Nuttall and Joeli Veitayaki
37. Polar Ocean Affairs
Klaus Dodds and Alan D. Hemmings
38. The World Ocean and the Human Future
Hance D. Smith, Juan Luis Suárez de Vivero and Tundi S. Agardy
