Principled oceans governance agendas: Lessons learned and future challenges

Towards Principled Oceans Governance: Australian and Canadian Approaches and Challenges

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 400-413

  VanderZwaag, David L ^a   Rothwell, Donald R ^b  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

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EID: 77955435836     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203967935     Document Type: Chapter

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1. For an overview, see R.J. Rutherford, C.J. Herbert and S.S. Coffen-Smout "Integrated ocean management and the collaborative planning process: The Eastern Scotian Shelf Integrated Management (ESSIM) Initiative" (2005) 29 Marine Policy 75-83.
2. See Lawrence Juda "Changing national approaches to ocean governance: The United States, Canada, and Australia" (2003) 34 Ocean Development and International Law 161-87.
3. For example, see Cass R. Sunstein, "Beyond the precautionary principle" (2003) 151 University of Pennsylvania. Law Review 1003;
4. Jaye Ellis and Alison FitzGerald, "The precautionary principle in international law: Lessons from Fuller's Internal Morality" (2004) 39 McGill Law Journal 779-800.
5. For example, see Karla Sperling "If caution really mattered" (1999) 16 Environmental and Planning Law Journal 425-40;
6. Kathryn Chapman, "Case Comment 114957 Canada Ltée (Spray-Tech, Société d'arrrosage) v. Hudson (ville): Application of the precautionary principle in domestic law" (2002) 15 Canadian Journal of Administrative Law Practice 123-36.
7. See, for example, J. Baird Callicott and Karen Mumford "Ecological Sustainability as a Conservation Concept" in John Lemons, Laura Westra and Robert Goodland (eds) Ecological Sustainability and Integrity: Concepts and Approaches (Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht: 1998);
8. J.B. Ruhl "The myth of what is inevitable under ecosystem management: A response to Pardy" (2004) 21 Pace Environmental Law Review 315-23.
9. See Thomas Isaac and Anthony Knox "Canadian aboriginal law: Creating certainty in resource development" (2004) 53 University of New Brunswick Law Journal 3-42.
10. See Julie Cassidy "The stolen generation: Canadian and Australian approaches to fiduciary duties" (2002-03) 34 Ottawa Law Review 175-238 at 209-10.
11. See Charie Metcalf "Indigenous rights and the environment: Evolving international law" (2003-04) 35 Ottawa Law Review 101-40 at 122-3.
12. See Dennis Renton "The Torres Strait Treaty after 15 Years: Some Observations from a Papua New Guinea Perspective" in James Crawford and Donald R. Rothwell (eds) The Law of the Sea in the Asian Pacific Region (Martinus Nijhoff, Dordrecht: 1995) 171-80.
13. See Lawrence P. Hildebrand, Victoria Pebbles and David A. Fraser "Cooperative ecosystem management across the Canada-US border: Approaches and experi-ences of transboundary programs in the Gulf of Maine, Great Lakes and Georgia Basin/Puget Sound" (2002) 45 Ocean & Coastal Management 421-57.
14. See David VanderZwaag, Rob Huebert and Stacey Ferrara "The Arctic Environmental Protection Strategy; Arctic Council and multilateral environmental initiatives: Tinkering while the Arctic marine environment totters" (2002) 30 Denver Journal of International Law and Policy 131-71
15. See, for example, Kristina M. Gjerde and David Freestone "Unfinished business:Deep-sea fisheries and the conservation of marine biodiversity beyond national jurisdiction. Editors' Introduction" (2004) 19 International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law 209-22.
16. See Rosemary Gail Rayfuse Non-Flag State Enforcement in High Seas Fisheries (Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, Leiden: 2004).
17. The Southern Ocean is often pointed to as a success, see Donald R. Rothwell "The Southern Ocean: Environmental and resource management under international law" in Hance D. Smith (ed.) The Oceans: Key Issues in Marine Affairs (Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht: 2004) 297-311.
18. See Robert W. Smith "A geographical primer to maritime boundary-making" (1982) 12 Ocean Development and International Law 1 at 3 who identified 376 potential maritime boundaries in need of settlement under the regime created by the 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea.
19. See Michael Byers "Policing the high seas: The proliferation security initiative" (2004) 98 American Journal of International Law 526-45.
20. See generally the discussion in R.R. Churchill and A.V. Lowe The Law of the Sea 3rd edition (Manchester University Press, Manchester: 1999) 4-5.
21. See, for example, David VanderZwaag, "The precautionary principle and marine environmental protection: Slippery shores, rough seas, and rising normative tides" (2002) 33 Ocean Development and International Law 165-88 at 174-5.
22. For a discussion of the tensions between positivistic and natural law viewpoints, see P.W. Birnie and A.E. Boyle International Law and the Environment 2nd edition (Oxford University Press, Oxford: 2002) at 18-20.
23. See David VanderZwaag Canada and Marine Environmental Protection: Charting a Legal Course Towards Sustainable Development (Kluwer Law International, London:1995).
24. For a discussion of the dominance of traditional ethical theories, see John Lemons and Pamela Morgan "Conservation of Biodiversity and Sustainable Development" in John Lemons and Donald A. Brown (eds) Sustainable Development:Science, Ethics, and Public Policy (Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht:1995) at 101-2.
25. see Douglas M. Johnston and David L. VanderZwaag "The ocean and international environmental law: Swimming, sinking and treading water at the millennium" (2000) 43 Ocean & Coastal Management 147-61 at 151-3 and 157.