Dr. Aldo Chircop is a specialist in marine and environmental law and policy. A former director of the International Ocean Institute, he is a Professor of Law at Schulich School of Law and an Associate of the Marine & Environmental Law Institute. Dr. Chircop has published widely on ocean and coastal law, policy, and management.Mr. Scott Coffen-Smout is an oceans management practitioner with the Government of Canada (Fisheries and Oceans) in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and an associate of the Marine & Environmental Law Institute.Dr. Moira L. McConnell is a Professor of Law and Director of the Marine & Environmental Law Institute (2004-2007) at Schulich School of Lawl, Canada. She is also a special advisor to the ILO in connection with maritime labour issues and has consulted for the IMO. Dr. McConnell is affiliated with the graduate research programme in MBA in Shipping and Logistics at Copenhagen Business School. She has published in wide range of topics related to the law of the sea, maritime and marine law and policy, and environmental law and policy.

• ContentsIssues and ProspectsOn the Abundance and Diversity of Oceanic Life: The 2010 Census of Marine Life, Fred GrassleA Logic Model for Assessing the Sustainability of Canadian Oceans Management, Policy and Governance, Murray A. RuddThe Government of Thailand’s Adaptive Learning in Disaster Management for Community Awareness and Resilience: An International Collaboration and Coordination Case Study, Cherdsak VirapatOcean GovernanceMaritime Dispute Settlement and the Practitioner, David H. AndersonThe Social Dimension of Portugal’s Ocean Policies, Gonçalo CarneiroThe Impact of Maritime Boundaries on Cooperation in the Creation of Transboundary Marine Protected Areas: Insights from Three Cases, Catarina GriloThe United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea: The Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf—A Force for Enhancing Stability in the Oceans (or Not), George TaftLiving ResourcesA Minority View on Ecosystem-Based Management and Ecosystem-Based Fisheries Management, John F. CaddyNon-Compliance Procedures: Can Regional Fisheries Management Organizations Learn from the Experience of Multilateral Environmental Agreements?, María Cecilia Engler PalmaEnvironment and Coastal ManagementTowards a Coastal Area Definition for Nova Scotia, Lucia M. Fanning and Christopher D. BurbidgePharmaceuticals as Emerging Contaminants in Coastal Ecosystems, Thomas H. HutchinsonMaritime Transport and SecurityTrans-Boundary Movement of Hazardous Ships for Their Last Rites: Will the Ship Recycling Convention Make a Difference?, Tony George PuthucherrilPlaces of Refuge for Ships in Need of Assistance: The Work of the Comité Maritime International, Stuart HetheringtonAdventure Cruise Shipping in Polar Regions: An Overview, Robert J. McCallaFor Those in Peril on the Sea: Search and Rescue under the Law of the Sea Convention, Amy E. MoenThe Russian Arctic Marine Transportation Policy, Vsevolod Peresypkin and Vladimir Vasilyev Education and TrainingCoastal and Marine Education in Schools: Constraints and Opportunities Created by the Curriculum, Schools, and Teachers in England, Zoë Castle, Stephen Fletcher and Emma McKinleyRegional DevelopmentsTowards the Adoption of an Integrated Approach to the Governance of the Arctic Ocean: The European Perspective, Alexandros KailisArctic Continental Shelf Delineation and Delimitation: The Significance of Ratifying the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea and the Sector Theory, Peggy C.Y. LeungThe South China Sea after 2009: Clarity of Claims and Enhanced Prospects for Regional Cooperation?, Ted L. McDormanBook ReviewsMyron H. Nordquist, Rüdiger Wolfrum, John Norton Moore and Ronán Long (eds.), Legal Challenges in Maritime Security (Stuart Kaye) Lilián del Castillo-Laborde, The Río de la Plata and Its Maritime Front Legal Regime (Juan Oribe Stemmer) Maria Helena Fonseca de Souza Rolim, The International Law on Ballast Water: Preventing Biopollution (Rodolfo P. Ripoll-Salcines) Howard S. Schiffman, Marine Conservation Agreements: The Law and Policy of Reservations and Vetoes (Aldo Chircop) Myron H. Nordquist, Tommy T.B. Koh and John Norton Moore (eds.), Freedom of Seas, Passage Rights and the 1982 Law of the Sea Convention (Haiwen Zhang)AppendicesContributorsIndex