A Sea Change: The Exclusive Economic Zone and Governance Institutions for Living Marine Resources (eBook) von Syma A. Ebbin

Overview.- Ocean Governance and Institutional Change.- A Brief Introduction to the Principal Provisions of the International Legal Regime Governing Fisheries in the EEZ.- National Strategies for EEZ Implementation.- The Performance of Exclusive Economic Zones.- Fisheries Management in the Russian Federation.- Integrated Oceans Management and the Institutional Performance of Exclusive Economic Zones.- The Impact of the EEZ on Pacific Salmon Management.- Regulating Access and the Use of Marine Genetic Resources within the Exclusive Economic Zone.- Regional Strategies for Coordinating the EEZ Regime.- Regional Fisheries Organisations and International Fisheries Governance.- Exclusive Economic Zones and the Management of Fisheries in the South China Sea.- Staking Their Claims: The Management of Marine Resources in the Exclusive Economic Zones of the Pacific Islands.- A Changing Sea: New and Emerging Institutional Directions for the EEZ.- FAOS Fisheries Programme and the Plan of Implementation of the World Summit on Sustainable Development.- Governing the Bering Sea Region.- Changing Seas, Changing Institutions: Charting New Courses into the Future.

A Sea Change in a Changing Sea The oceans, seas and coastal areas encompass over 70% of the earths surface. They are a critical driver of the earths hydrologic cycle and climate system, important for c- merce, transport, and tourism, a source of economically important living marine resources, minerals such as hydrocarbons, as well as new pharmaceutical compounds. The marine environment provides essential habitats for thousands of marine living 1 2 resources, which in turn contribute significantly to global food security, employment, 3 and trade. Overall, the seas contribution to human welfare, in terms of market and non-market resources and environmental services, has been estimated at US$21 trillion/year (Costanza, 2000). However, despite the importance of the ocean realm to humans, there is a growing sense that human impacts are destabilizing this system. Some experts believe that current fishing levels are approaching or exceeding the total 4 productivity of the ocean ecosystem (National Research Council, 1999).