edited by James Broadus and Raphael V. Vartanov
contributions by Mark Eiserth, Natalia Mirovitskaya, Lawson W. Brigham, Philip A McGillivary, Miranda Wecker, Yoshiaki Kaoru, Kristina Gjerde, Peter Haas, M. J. Peterson, Matthew J. Lamourie, Tom Tietenburg, Artemy A. Saguirian, Suzanne M. Demisch, Giulio Pontecorvo, J. Christopher Haney and J. I. Charney
Island Press, 1994
Paper: 978-1-55963-236-2 | eISBN: 978-1-61091-335-5 | Cloth: 978-1-55963-235-5
Library of Congress Classification K3485.6.O27 1994
Dewey Decimal Classification 333.91

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ABOUT THIS BOOK


The concept of environmental security, drawing on the widely understood notion of international strategic interdependence (in facing, for example, threats of nuclear war or economic collapse) is gaining currency as a way of thinking about international environmental management.


In 1989, the Institute for World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Marine Policy Center of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution instituted a joint project to examine environmental security as it applies to the world's oceans. The Oceans and Environmental Security is a unified expression of their findings.


The oceans, as global commons, are of central importance to issues of international environmental security. Critical problems are those that are likely to destabilize normal relations between nations and provoke international countermeasures. As such, the book focuses on seven specific concerns:



  • land-based marine pollution

  • North Pacific fisheries depletion

  • hazardous materials transport

  • nuclear contamination

  • the Arctic Ocean

  • the Southern Ocean and Antarctica

  • the Law of the Sea