Contents

pp vii-x

List of figures

pp xi-xi

List of tables

pp xii-xii

Notes on the contributors

pp xiii-xiv

Preface and acknowledgements

pp xv-xvii

List of abbreviations

pp xviii-xxii

INTRODUCTORY OVERVIEW

pp 1-2

Protecting the polar marine environment: interplay of regulatory frameworks

pp 3-16

PART I - LEVELS OF REGULATION IN THE PROTECTION OF THE POLAR MARINE ENVIRONMENT

pp 17-18

1 - Globalism and regionalism in the protection of the marine environment

pp 19-33

2 - United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea and the polar marine environment

pp 34-56

3 - Global environmental protection instruments and the polar marine environment

pp 57-77

4 - The polar marine environment in regional cooperation

pp 78-103

5 - Protection of the Antarctic environment against marine pollution under the 1991 Protocol

pp 104-123

6 - Sub-regional cooperation and protection of the Arctic marine environment: the Barents Sea

pp 124-148

7 - Domestic perspectives and regulations in protecting the polar marine environment: Australia, Canada and the United States

pp 149-172

PART II - CURRENT TRENDS AND ISSUES IN PROTECTING THE POLAR MARINE ENVIRONMENT

pp 173-174

8 - Land-based marine pollution and the Arctic: polarities between principles and practice

pp 175-199

9 - Radioactive waste in the Barents and Kara Seas: Russian implementation of the global dumping regime

pp 200-220

10 - Regulation of navigation and vessel-source pollution in the Northern Sea Route: Article 234 and state practice

pp 221-243

11 - The emerging International Polar Navigation Code: bi-polar relevance?

pp 244-262

Index of international instruments and national legislation

pp 263-267

Subject index

pp 268-276