the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has called for the protection of 30% of the world’s oceans by 2030, along with environmental non-governmental organizations (E-NGOs) such as Pristine Seas (Pew, 2018 & National...
AStakeholderAnalysisoftheCreationofHighSeasMarineProtectedAreaswithinthe AntarcticTreatySystem KELLYE.SOVACOOL ThesisSubmittedtotheFacultyof VirginiaPolytechnicInstituteandStateUniversity inpartialfulfillmentoftherequirementsforthedegreeof MASTEROFSCIENCE IN GEOGRAPHY ...
Fishing takes place in the high seas and Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZs) of maritime countries. Closing the former to fishing has recently been proposed in the literature and is currently an issue of debate in various international fora. We determine the degree of overlap between fish caught in...
In addition to the EU access agreements that have been signed in recent years, a 1987 treaty between 16 Pacific island nations and the US granted access to their EEZ to as many as 50 vessels. The US government subsidizes $14 million of the annual $18 million payment [37].13 One factor...
2.4.1. Current Practice of High Seas MPAs With the joint promotion of the United Nations, the Convention on Biological Diversity, the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marin...
Object-Based Image Analysis and Treaty Verification; Springer B.V.: Heidelberg, Germany, 2008. 12. Hofmann, P.; Strobl, J.; Blaschke, T.; Kux, H. Detecting informal settlements from QuickBird data in Riode janeiro using an object-based approach. In Proceedings of the 1st International ...