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  • Towards Principled Oceans Governance

    Australian and Canadian Approaches and Challenges

    Series series Routledge Advances in Maritime Research
    Australia and Canada have been at the forefront of efforts to operationalize integrated oceans and coastal management. Throughout the 1990s both countries devoted considerable effort to developing strategies to give effect to international ocean management obligations.This key book focuses on principles of marine environmental conservation and management, maritime regulation and enforcement, and ... Read more

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  • Aquaculture Law and Policy

    Towards principled access and operations

    Series series Routledge Advances in Maritime Research
    The aquaculture industry is fast expanding around the globe and causing major environmental and social disruptions. The volume is about getting a 'good governance' grip on this important industry.The book highlights the numerous law and policy issues that must be addressed in the search for effective regulation of aquaculture. Those issues include among others: the equitable and fair assignment of ... Read more

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  • La Mer et son droit, entre liberté et consensualisme, la difficile protection des espaces naturels fragiles

    Frédérique Vallon s’attache ici au droit de la mer du point de vue environnemental, et se concentre sur les difficultés qui lui sont propres. En effet, la mer est un territoire international, par lequel transite 80% du commerce mondial, et où tous les pays sont représentés. Comment, dès lors, créer et appliquer un droit qui convienne à tous et qui tienne compte des enjeux politiques, économiques ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Tanker Disasters

    IMO's Places of Refuge and the Special Compensation Clause; Erika, Prestige, Castor and 65 Casualties

    by Eric Wiberg ...
    Written in fulfillment of a Master's in Marine Affairs Degree at the University of Rhode Island in 2005, this is the harrowing tale of some 70 vessels over the past 30 years who have found themselves distressed at sea and begged coastal states for a safe place to stabilize their problems. As this unique research points out, more often than not they were turned away - and in the case of the ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Serving the Rule of International Maritime Law

    Essays in Honour of Professor David Joseph Attard

    Series series IMLI Studies in International Maritime Law
    International maritime law is far from inert, everyday international affairs constantly test existing law and, in many occasions, require its development. Serving the Rule of International Maritime Law is thus not limited to a description of the current state of the law, but contains innovative studies on current issues and events that are testing the present state of international maritime law ... Read more

    $56.99 USD

  • The International Law of the Sea

    The law of the sea provides for the regulation, management and governance of the ocean spaces that cover over two-thirds of the Earth's surface. This book provides a fresh explanation of the foundational principles of the law of the sea, a critical overview of the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, and an analysis of subsequent developments including the many bilateral, regional ... Read more

    $41.99 USD

  • Gestion intégrée des zones côtières : risques et responsabilités

    by Collectif ...
    Series series VertigO
    La gestion intégrée des zones côtières impose de prendre en considération les espaces marins et terrestres. Ce territoire « entre-deux » est soumis plus que d’autres à un ensemble de risques, que les évolutions climatiques semblent renforcer pour certains. En s’appuyant sur une démarche interdisciplinaire et opérationnelle, il s’agit dans le cadre de cet ouvrage de comprendre les enjeux que ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Limitation of Liability in International Maritime Conventions

    The Relationship between Global Limitation Conventions and Particular Liability Regimes

    Series series IMLI Studies in International Maritime Law
    Limitation of liability for maritime claims is a concept of respectable antiquity which is now deeply entrenched in the maritime industry. Under this concept, the shipowner is entitled to limit his liability for maritime claims up to a maximum sum regardless of the actual amount of the claims. The concept of limitation of liability has been adopted by many conventions ranging from those relating ... Read more

    $94.99 USD

  • Gestion durable des zones côtières et marines : nouveaux discours, nouvelles durabilités, nouvelles frontières

    by Collectif ...
    Series series VertigO
    La gestion intégrée des zones côtières est un des moyens de répondre à différents problèmes induits par l’intensification et la densification croissante des activités humaines. Des problèmes qui se posent de manière exacerbée sur les littoraux, alors même que la menace d’une montée de la mer se fait jour, et que le littoral est plus que les autres régions touchées par la pression d’aménagements ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Law of Waiver, Variation and Estoppel

    The doctrines of waiver, variation and estoppel are relied upon to justify or criticize a party's changed position as to its contractual obligations. This book provides a complete practitioner guide to these complex but important doctrines, analysing their basic foundations and their relationship with other areas of law including contract, restitution, and equity. As well as clarifying and ... Read more

    $359.99 USD

  • Buccaneers and Privateers

    The Story of the English Sea Rover, 1675–1725

    In the late seventeenth century, Spain dominated the Caribbean and Central and South America, establishing colonies, mining gold and silver, and gathering riches from Asia for transportation back to Europe. Seeking to disrupt Spain’s nearly unchecked empire-building and siphon off some of their wealth, seventeenth- and eighteenth-century British adventurers—both legitimate and illegitimate—led ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • Cases and Materials on Marine Insurance Law

    by Susan Hodges ...
    This book provides a comprehensive collection of Cases and Materials On Marine Insurance Law. The sources included here are not always readily accessible. Each chapter is introduced with a brief resume of the general principles,before the facts of each case are summarised and the extracts of the relevant parts of judgments reproduced.The significance of the judicial extracts, the statutory ... Read more

    $150.99 USD

  • Maritime Security and the Law of the Sea

    by Natalie Klein ...
    Series series Oxford Monographs in International Law
    Maritime Security and the Law of the Sea examines the rights and duties of states across a broad spectrum of maritime security threats. It provides comprehensive coverage of the different dimensions of maritime security in order to assess how responses to maritime security concerns are, and should be, shaping the law of the sea. The discussion canvasses passage of military vessels and military ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • La Mer et son droit, entre liberté et consensualisme, l'impossible gestion de la piraterie et du terrorisme

    Avec notre époque, le monde maritime a connu plus d’un bouleversement. Avancées technologiques, mondialisation, transport de matières dangereuses ont entraîné une évolution de la criminalité et une adaptation du droit pénal maritime aux nouvelles donnes. Comment envisager l’avenir de ce droit de la mer à la lumière de l’histoire du XXe siècle, à l’heure où piraterie, terrorisme et pollution s ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Vice-Admiralty Courts and the American Revolution

    Series series Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
    This study describes the courts of vice-admiralty as they existed in the American colonies at the beginning of the revolutionary struggles, analyzes the changes in the courts and their jurisdiction from 1763 to the outbreak of the war, and examines the American objections to the vice-admiralty system.Originally published in 1960.A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Shipowners' Limitation of Liability

    This book refines the features of a variety of different common law and civil law systems down to a recognizable standard CIT system, identifying in the process the system's core strengths and problems, as well as the factors that determine its impact on corporate behavior. The author offers insightful perspectives on such crucial issues as the following: corporate group members versus corporate ... Read more

    $197.99 USD

  • Marine Environmental Governance

    From International Law to Local Practice

    by Erika Techera ...
    Marine Environmental Governance: From International Law to Local Practice considers the relationship between international environmental law and community-based management of marine areas. Focusing on small island states, in which indigenous populations have to a large extent continued to maintain traditional lifestyles, this book takes up the question of how indigenous customary law and state ... Read more

    $56.99 USD

  • The Republic Afloat

    Law, Honor, and Citizenship in Maritime America

    Series series American Beginnings, 1500-1900
    In the years before the Civil War, many Americans saw the sea as a world apart, an often violent and insular culture governed by its own definitions of honor and ruled by its own authorities. The truth, however, is that legal cases that originated at sea had a tendency to come ashore and force the national government to address questions about personal honor, dignity, the rights of labor, and the ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Law of Marine Insurance

    by Susan Hodges ...
    This book provides a critical and comprehensive study of the law of marine insurance. The book explores the relationship and interaction between the Marine Insurance Act 1906, the common law and the terms of the Institute Clauses. ... Read more

    $140.99 USD

  • War, Terror and Carriage by Sea

    by Keith Michel ...
    Series series Maritime and Transport Law Library
    War, Terror and Carriage by Sea provides a comprehensive legal analysis of the law and practice relating to the impact of war or war related risks, terrorism and piracy on international commercial shipping. It includes a detailed review of: • International Hull Clauses, the Institute War and Strikes Clauses, and by the P&I Associations and War Risk Associations in respect of war, war related, ... Read more

    $450.99 USD

  • Risk and Liability in Air Law

    Series series Maritime and Transport Law Library
    This book is the first attempt to analyse the relevant international conventions governing the liability of airlines to passengers and third parties on the ground from a risk perspective. The book analyses the transformation of the notion of risk over time and identifies the ways and the extent to which social perceptions have influenced the liability of airlines in the aftermath of safety ... Read more

    $575.99 USD

  • P&I Clubs: Law and Practice

    by David Semark ...
    Series series Lloyd's Shipping Law Library
    This fourth edition is a detailed but easy-to-follow account of the constitution, workings and daily practice of protection and indemnity clubs. Designed to be a practical reference source for anyone who is in any way involved with mutual insurance, it offers comprehensive guidance on the complex area of P&I Clubs. The new fourth edition has been fully revised and updated since the last edition ... Read more

    $625.99 USD

  • Bills of Lading and Bankers' Documentary Credits

    by Paul Todd ...
    Series series Maritime and Transport Law Library
    Bills of Lading and Bankers’ Documentary Credits provides a straightforward guide to the nuances and complexities of deals conducted under the documentary credit system. The book describes in detail the law applicable to and the practical workings of bankers' documentary credits as they are used in international sales and carriage of goods contracts in a way that is accessible to both lawyers and ... Read more

    $540.99 USD

  • Commencement of Laytime

    by Davies Donald ...
    Series series Maritime and Transport Law Library
    Commencement of Laytime is the only in-depth examination and discussion concerning the most important financial aspect of laytime which can affect all voyage charter parties and international contracts for the sale of goods. The information is presented in a style which is readable by ship operators, traders and other lay persons as well as legal professionals. ... Read more

    $500.99 USD