The ocean and international environmental law: Swimming, sinking, and treading water at the millennium

Ocean and Coastal Management

Volumn 43, Issue 2-3, 2000, Pages 141-161

  Johnston, Douglas M ^a   VanderZwaag, David L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; INTERNATIONAL LAW; OCEANOGRAPHY; PUBLIC POLICY; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS; ENVIRONMENTAL INSTRUMENTS; INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL LAW; INTERNATIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES; JURISPRUDENTIAL UNDERPINNINGS; OCEAN GOVERNANCE;

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION;

ENVIRONMENTAL LEGISLATION; INTERNATIONAL LAW; MARINE POLICY; TRADE FLOW;

EID: 0034028316     PISSN: 09645691     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0964-5691(99)00070-8     Document Type: Article

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