Dual Approach to Ocean Governance

Yoshifumi Tanaka is Assistant Professor at University of Copenhagen Faculty of Law, Denmark.

• Contents: A new perspective on ocean governance; Part I The Dual Approach to Conservation of Marine Living Sources: Limits of the zonal management approach to conservation of marine living resources; The quest for an integrated management approach to the conservation of marine living resources. Part II The Dual Approach to Conservation of Marine Biological Diversity: Conservation of marine biological diversity in international law: a general appraisal; Marine protected areas in conservation of marine biological diversity; in search of an integrated management approach. Part III Marine Scientific Research as a Foundation of Ocean Governance: The obligation to co-operate in marine scientific research and conservation of marine living resources and biological diversity; General conclusion; Selected Bibliography; Index.

'Dr Tanaka finds that the zonal approach, which divides the sea into jurisdictional spaces, and the integrated management approach, which considers the sea as one physical unity, should be reconciled. I share many, even if not all, of his remarks. But this is the most clear, logical, documented and thought-provoking book on international law of the sea that I have read in the last decade.' Tullio Scovazzi, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy