Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2000
Keywords
environmental law, international law, sustainable development, ocean governance, environmental ethics, negotiated instruments, political opposition
Abstract
Various images help capture the status and trends of international law and policy efforts to protect the ocean environment. While “treading water” and “sinking” partly describe legal conditions at the millennium, this paper examines seven challenges in the international environmental law field which at the very least promise to make for a “hard swim” in coming decades. Those challenges include: coping with the proliferation of negotiated instruments; overcoming political opposition to environmental commitments; clarifying the jurisprudential underpinnings of international environmental law; sorting out the relation of environmental ethics, science and the rule of law; fleshing out the principles of sustainable development; addressing practical problems of implementing international responsibilities; and visioning future paths of ocean governance.
Recommended Citation
D Johnston & D VanderZwaag, “The Ocean and International Environmental Law: Swimming, Sinking and Treading Water at the Millennium” (2000) 43 Ocean & Coastal Mgmt 141.
Publication Abbreviation
Ocean & Coastal Mgmt
