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Book SynopsisThis important Research Handbook provides a guide to navigating the tangled array of laws and policies available to counter the multiple threats of ocean acidification. It investigates the limitations and opportunities for addressing ocean acidification under global governance frameworks, including multilateral environmental agreements, law of the sea and human rights instruments.
The book also describes regional and national approaches and challenges in responding to ocean acidification. The special vulnerabilities of the Arctic, Antarctic and South Pacific are highlighted. Limited responses by regional sea programmes and regional fisheries management organizations are summarized. Case studies are provided from Australia, Brazil, China and the United States.
This discerning Research Handbook will be a welcome read for policy makers and students with an interest in the laws and policies of marine governance and climate change. This will also be an ideal read for those who are interested in the pressing environmental issues facing the world community.
Trade Review‘. . . the edited collection makes for an excellent contribution to the literature on ocean acidification. Many of the contributions address issues that have not yet received much scholarly attention, while those that cover more familiar topics provide new perspectives and track recent developments in the legal and policy response to ocean acidification. Research Handbook on Ocean Acidification Law and Policy
certainly succeeds in providing “a navigational guide to the tangled currents” of responding to ocean acidification at the global, regional and national levels. For this, the editors and the contributors are to be commended. Hopefully this guide will not only be the basis for further scholarly investigation of the different challenges ocean acidification presents, but will also be read by policymakers at different levels of governance and go some way to steering them towards more effective responses to continuing ocean acidification.’ -- Philipp Peter Nickels, The International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law
‘Like climate change, ocean acidification is caused by rising carbon dioxide emissions. However, unlike the former, its adverse impacts on the marine ecosystems globally, biological diversity, human rights and food security are largely unaddressed. This Research Handbook draws attention to this gap in law and policy; a gap in dire need of closing. The opportunities, the book suggests, lie in regional, national and sub-national responses. The success depends on whether governments rise to this major challenge. In this context, the book is an alarm bell.’ -- Christina Voigt, University of Oslo, Norway
Table of ContentsContents: 1 Introduction to the Research Handbook on Ocean Acidification Law and Policy 1 David L VanderZwaag, Nilüfer Oral, and Tim Stephens PART I SCIENTIFIC CONTEXT 2 Ocean acidification: scientific understanding and challenges 11 Dan Laffoley, John M Baxter, Elizabeth B Jewett, Maureen T Brooks and Nelson A Lagos PART II GLOBAL LAW AND POLICY 3 Implications of the Paris Agreement for Action on Ocean Acidification within the UNFCCC 24 Ellycia R Harrould-Kolieb 4 Ocean acidification and multilateral environmental agreements 37 Naporn Popattanachai and Elizabeth A Kirk 5 Maritime transport and ocean acidification 53 Beatriz Martinez Romera 6 Ocean acidification and a new treaty on marine biodiversity in areas beyond national jurisdiction 61 Joanna Mossop 7 Food security, fisheries and ocean acidification: a human rights based approach 74 Hilal Elver and Nilüfer Oral PART III REGIONAL LAW AND POLICY 8 Regional seas programmes and ocean acidification 94 Kerry Tetzlaff 9 Regional fisheries bodies and ocean acidification 123 Rosemary Rayfuse 10 Ocean acidification and the Arctic: regional scientific and governance responses 142 Nadja Steiner and David L VanderZwaag 11 Southern Ocean acidification and the Antarctic Treaty System 164 Karen N Scott 12 Ocean acidification and Pacific Island countries and territories: sounding the alarm on an existential threat 179 Clement Yow Mulalap PART IV NATIONAL LAW AND POLICY 13 Ocean acidification: science, policy and law in Australia 201 Ellycia R Harrould-Kolieb and Tim Stephens 14 Brazilian policy and law review on ocean acidification and climate change: achievements and challenges 220 Maria Helena Fonseca de Souza Rolim and Victor Alencar Mayer Feitosa Ventura 15 Ocean acidification and China’s response 238 Jiayu Bai and Jiaxin Sui 16 The battle against ocean acidification in the United States 260 Sherry P Broder Index
