Routledge Handbook of Ocean Resources and Management

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This comprehensive handbook provides a global overview of ocean resources and management by focusing on critical issues relating to human development and the marine environment, their interrelationships as expressed through the uses of the sea as a resource, and the regional expression of these themes. The underlying approach is geographical, with prominence given to the biosphere, political arrangements and regional patterns - all considered to be especially crucial to the human understanding required for the use and management of the world's oceans. Part one addresses key themes in our knowledge of relationships between people and the sea on a global scale, including economic and political issues, and understanding and managing marine environments. Part two provides a systematic review of the uses of the sea, grouped into food, ocean space, materials and energy, and the sea as an environmental resource. Part three on the geography of the sea considers management strategies especially related to the state system, and regional management developments in both core economic regions and the developing periphery. Chapter 23 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license. https: //www.routledgehandbooks.com/doi/10.432... Cover Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents Author affiliations Acknowledgements Introduction 1 The world ocean and the human past and present PART 1 The world ocean The globalisation of governance 2 Changing geopolitical scenarios 3 State ocean strategies and policies for the open ocean 4 International marine governance and protection of biodiversity 5 Regional ecosystem-based imperatives within global ocean governance Understanding marine environments 6 Blue planet: the role of the oceans in nutrient cycling, maintaining the atmospheric system, and modulating climate change 7 Ocean health 8 Marine scientific research: overview of major issues, programmes and their objectives Managing marine environments 9 Marine conservation 10 Science and policy 11 Ecosystem services and their economic and social value 12 Strategic environmental assessment 13 Greening the ocean economy: a progress report PART 2 The uses of the sea Living resources 14 Global fisheries: current situation and challenges 15 The high seas and IUU fishing 16 Rethinking small-scale fisheries governance 17 Mariculture: aquaculture in the marine environment Energy and materials 18 Oil and gas 19 Renewables: an ocean of energy 20 Ocean minerals 21 Making progress with marine genetic resources Ocean space 22 Shipping and navigation 23 Subsea telecommunications 24 Sea-power The marine environment 25 Waste disposal and ocean pollution 26 Marine leisure and tourism 27 Maritime heritage conservation PART 3 The geography of the sea Spatial organisation 28 State maritime boundaries 29 The deep seabed: legal and political challenges 30 Surveying the sea 31 Marine protected areas and ocean planning Regional developments: key core maritime regions 32 Maritime boundaries: the end of the Mediterranean exception 33 Marine spatial planning in the United States: triangulating between state and federal roles and responsibilities 34 The East Asian seas: competing national spheres of influence Regional developments: the developing periphery 35 Africa: coastal policies, maritime strategies and development 36 South Pacific and small island developing states: Oceania is vast, canoe is centre, village is anchor, continent is margin 37 Polar oceans: sovereignty and the contestation of territorial and resource rights 38 The world ocean and the human future Index