Canada and Marine Environmental Protection:Charting a Legal Course Towards Sustainable Development

by David L. VanderZwaag

This major new work charts a legal course towards principled development and management of the marine environment. It analyzes key principles of sustainable development and their implications for ocean law and policy, including integration, precaution, pollution prevention, polluter pays, public participation, community-based management and international equity. The author summarizes participation in global and regional agreements and arrangements for protecting the marine environment and suggests future directions for global, regional and national legal systems. For example, national law reforms establishing a coastal zone management framework, developing a process for designating and managing marine protected areas, adopting a precautionary approach in decision-making and recasting the public trust doctrine.

576 pages, Hardcover

First published July 26, 1995