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Governance Of Arctic Marine Shipping, David Vanderzwaag, Aldo Chircop, Erik Franckx, Hugh M. M. Kindred, Moira Mcconnell, Angus Hugh Mcdonald, Ted Mcdorman, Tony George Puthucherril, Phillip Saunders, K. Joseph Spears

Reports & Public Policy Documents

The governance of shipping activities in the Arctic might be described as a “complicated mosaic.” The 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), often referred to as the constitution of the oceans, sets out the overall legal framework for the regulation of shipping. The Convention sets out coastal state legislative and enforcement powers over foreign ships according to the maritime zones of jurisdiction laid out in the Convention. A fragmented array of international agreements attempts to address specific challenges raised by shipping such as marine pollution prevention standards, ship safety, seafarer rights and qualifications, and liability …

Law And Policy Options For Strategic Environmental Assessment In Canada, Hugh J. Benevides, Denis Kirchhoff, Robert B. Gibson, Meinhard Doelle

Reports & Public Policy Documents

This research paper has been produced for the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency on behalf of the sub-committee on Strategic Environmental Assessment (the SEA sub-committee) which is in turn mandated by the Minister of the Environment’s Regulatory Advisory Committee (RAC). The immediate need for the report is a request from RAC to the SEA sub-committee to research and report on law and policy options for improving the conduct of Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) in Canada, with a focus on the federal level.

The purpose of the paper is to provide an impartial, research-based assessment of the best approaches to designing and …