1st Edition

The Law of the Sea and the Planetary Crisis

Edited By Nengye Liu, Shirley V. Scott Copyright 2025
242 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

242 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

242 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book examines the challenge of negotiating and implementing new legal regimes addressing contemporary ocean challenges in the context of uncertain planetary futures. The book covers the themes of climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution. Contributors examine a range of emerging, understudied issues, including the legal regulation of ocean acidification, the development of the... Read more

List of Contributors

Preface

Alexander Proelss

Acknowledgement

Foreword

1 The “triple challenge” facing ocean law and governance
Nengye Liu and Shirley V. Scott

2 Global experimentalist governance and ocean acidification
Annika Frosch

3 Multi-ocean spaces and offshore wind energy
Gabriela Argüello

4 Regulating deep-sea mining for critical minerals: A “wicked problem” of the Anthropocene?
David Leary

5 The case for using Elinor Ostrom’s studies on robustness
and adaptive governance to implement the BBNJ Agreement
Kristine Elfrida Dalaker

6 International fisheries as the “whale in the room” at the negotiations
for a new instrument for biodiversity beyond national jurisdiction
Ethan Beringen

7 The principle of common heritage of humankind as a bridge between deep
seabed mining and biodiversity conservation
Carina Costa de Oliveira, Harvey Mpoto Bombaka, and
Ana Flávia Barros-Platiau

8 Is international law fit for purpose for the green shipping
transition?
Ethan Beringen and Nengye Liu

9 Institutional compliance mechanisms for International
Maritime Organization treaties: Regime building for the next crisis
Rebecca Prentiss Pskowski

10 Developing Ocean Regimes for an Uncertain Future
Shirley V. Scott and Nengye Liu

Index

Biography

Liu Nengye is associate professor of law at Yong Pung How School of Law, Singapore Management University, where he teaches and conducts research on law and sustainability.

Shirley V. Scott is professor of international law and international relations in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at UNSW Canberra, Australia.