Table of Contents
PART 1. Introduction 1. The growing challenge for marine governance: global environmental change PART 2. International law, regimes, and leadership in marine environmental governance 2. The global oceans regime: the law of the sea and beyond 3. The climate-oceans nexus: oceans in the climate regime, climate in the oceans regime 4. The legal implications of ocean acidification: beyond the climate change regime 5. Regimes for ocean management: regional seas programmes and blue-carbon habitats 6. Blue dimensions of the European Green Deal: climate action at sea 7. Leadership: actors and their strategies in marine environmental governance PART 3. Non-state actors in marine environmental governance 8. Experts: scientific knowledge for ocean protection 9. Civil society: nongovernmental organizations, public opinion, and individuals 10. Private governance: the case of Marine Stewardship Council certification in Russia 11. Private-sector investors: climate action and blue carbon financing PART 4. Governing marine environments and regions 12. Vulnerable nations and communities: accounting for those most dependent on the seas 13. Coastlines and nearshore habitats: interactive governance in an era of global environmental change 14. Islands: rising seas, vulnerable shorelines, and territorial integrity 15. Coral reefs: the case for social-ecological reflexivity 16. Fisheries and aquaculture in Southeast Asia: managing the impacts of climate change 17. The Baltic Sea and global environmental change: best-in-class governance? 18. Governance of the Black Sea: institutional arrangements for managing the impacts of global environmental change 19. Polar seas: governing extreme change in the Arctic and Southern Oceans 20. Oil pollution and black carbon in the Arctic: dynamic shipping governance in a rapidly warming region 21. The high seas: adapting to changes in pelagic ecosystems PART 5. Emerging issues in environmentally sustainable marine governance 22. Plastic pollution: the challenges of uncertainty and multiplicity in global marine governance 23. Maritime commerce and transport: the imperfect match between climate change and the International Maritime Organization 24. Global change and the development of sustainable floating cities: regulatory and legal implications 25. Oceans and seas for sustainable development: challenges of global environmental change for SDG14 26. Ethics, justice, and human rights: normative considerations in marine environmental change PART 6. Conclusion 27. Prospects for marine governance in the Anthropocene: portents from the climate regime
