Who Rules the Waves?/Кто правит волнами?

Книга на английском языке.
With piracy raging in the Indian Ocean, international disputes over undersea oil and gas, and chronic overfishing, the oceans have rarely been subject to such varied and environmentally damaging conflict outside a world war. In "Who Rules the Waves?", Denise Russell gives us a rare insight into these issues and how they could be resolved. International law states that a coastal country has territorial rights for 12 miles into the sea beyond its coastline, and economic rights for 200 miles, but in practice many countries have virtually no control over their own waters, and there is no international agency powerful enough to settle disputes. Russell provides a thorough examination of the politics of the sea, showing that without a radical change in ocean governance, accelerating climate change and overuse of the sea's resources is likely to have catastrophic effects.

Contents
List of Figures and Tables
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 Freedom of the Seas
Early attempts to close off the seas
Pirates, privateers and the domination of the seas
Grotius’ arguments for freedom of the seas
Replies to Grotius defending closure of the seas
Limits to freedom of the seas
Grotius’ principles in the current law of the sea
Climate change, rising sea levels and the displacement of island communities
2 Underwater Non-living Resources
Who has a claim?
Antarctica and the Southern Ocean
The Arctic Ocean
Ecological threats from oil and gas activities in the Arctic
Stresses on the Arctic from climate change
Ocean acidification
Different ways of valuing the polar regions
3 Underwater Cultural Heritage
What is underwater cultural heritage?
Salvage Laws
Treasure salvors and ownership
National ownership
Common heritage
4 Modern Piracy and Terrorism on the Sea
The Alondra Rainbow
The law of the sea and contemporary piracy
Why piracy now?
The rise of piracy in Somalia
Pirate attacks on private boats
Terrorism on the sea
5 The Fishing Wars
The cod wars
The turbot war
Fish piracy
Threats to fish populations from climate change and ocean acidification
The war on fish
6 Cetaceans and the Sea
Whales and dolphins
Cetaceans and morality
Threats facing cetaceans
Protection agencies
7 Sea Gypsies
Sea gypsies: people without an address or ‘names that can be found in books’
The sea as home
Threats to sea-gypsy cultures
Sea borders, shark fishing and cultural survival
8 Indigenous Sea Claims
Ownership as belonging
Contemporary attempts to assert ownership of the oceans by indigenous groups
Australian High Court decisions on Sea Rights
Indigenous sea rights and environmental threats
9 Protection of the Oceans
Ownership of coastal areas
Ownership of international waters
International ocean governance
Implementation of a new ocean management regime
Notes
Index