- Easy-to-read volume which enables access to the complex world of international law and marine mammals
- Written as a textbook with several didactic elements which user-friendly links the biophysical and the legal environment of marine mammals
- Provides a link between legal and cultural aspects concerning marine mammals
- Written by a legal anthropologist, thus going beyond the legal dimension, but underlining it with empirical data and observation
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- About this Textbook
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International Marine Mammal Law is a comprehensive, introductory volume on the legal regimes governing the conservation and utilisation of marine mammals. Written as a textbook, it provides basic overviews of international conservation law, which enable the reader to understand the greater implications of governance of a specific group of species. Paired with biological information on some marine mammal species, the international regimes for whales, seals and polar bears are explored — either as part of global regimes of international environmental governance or as regimes that were specifically designed for them. The book concludes with outlooks on the future of international marine mammal law, particularly in light of Japan’s withdrawal from the International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling in July 2019.
- About the authors
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Nikolas Sellheim, Visiting Researcher at Helsinki Institute of Sustainability Science (HELSUS)
- Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Why an Introduction to International Marine Mammal Law?
Pages 1-11
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Marine Mammals: Some Basics
Pages 13-34
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Marine Mammals and Humans
Pages 35-56
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The Global Framework for the Environment and Marine Mammals
Pages 57-80
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The International Legal Framework for Whales
Pages 81-124
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- International Marine Mammal Law
- Authors
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- Nikolas Sellheim
- Copyright
- 2020
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Copyright Holder
- Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-030-35268-4
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-030-35268-4
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-35267-7
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XXVII, 225
- Number of Illustrations
- 12 b/w illustrations
- Topics
