The Precautionary Principle in the Law of the Sea: Modern Decision Making in International Law

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Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2003 - 253 страница
The content and status of the precautionary principle remains highly debated and various questions arise, such as its status as a rule of customary international law, including its scope, addressee, triggering threshold, precautionary action measures, and eventually limits of the principle. Thus, this book examines the present state of affairs regarding the implementation of the principle in the law of the sea in different sectors, e.g. pollution of the marine environment, conservation and management of living marine resources, and transboundary transports of radioactive and hazardous wastes. In addition, it extracts evidence of its acceptance as part of customary international law, and indicates that below this level there is also an emerging practice of international law of applying the precautionary principle in a common way.

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Introduction
1
Science
24
Limitations of the Precautionary Principle
35
Pollution of the Marine Environment
46
Marine Biodiversity
100
Precautionary Approach to Dumping and Incineration
118
Conservation and Management of Living Marine Resources
134
Transboundary Movements of Radioactive and Hazardous Substances
184
From a Principle to a Rule of Customary International Law?
202
Conclusions
223
Index
249
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Simon Marr is an international lawyer working at Ecologic, Institute for International and European Environmental Policy. His work focuses on providing legal advice on issues of international and European law, including aspects of climate change as well as other fields of environmental protection.

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