Regulation of Continental Shelf Development

Myron H. Nordquist is the Associate Director and Editor of the Center for Oceans Law and Policy, and Senior Fellow at the Center for National Security Law at the University of Virginia School of Law. He is Editor-in-Chief of the seven-volume Virginia commentary series,plus a Supplementary Documents volume, the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea 1982: a Commentary.John Norton Moore is the Walter L. Brown Professor of Law at the University of Virginia School of Law, Director of the Center for Oceans Law and Policy, and Director of the Center for National Security Law. He is the author or editor of thirty-eight books and over 170 scholarly articles and served for two decades on the editorial board of the American Journal of International Law, where he is currently an Honorary Editor.Aldo Chircop is a specialist in maritime law, marine and environmental law and policy, and integrated coastal and ocean management. His work experience has included directorships of the Marine Affairs Programme and Marine Environmental Law Program at Dalhousie, the International Ocean Institute and the Mediterranean Institute in Malta, and a brief term with the United Nations Industrial Development Organization in Vienna, Austria.Ronán Long holds the Jean Monnet Chair of European Law at the School of Law at NUI Galway and lectures EU Law, International Law, Planning and Environmental Law, Law of the Sea and European Fisheries Law. He has also lectured at the Rhodes Academy Oceans Law and Policy and is a supervisor of advanced academic research under the United Nations - The Nippon Foundation of Japan Fellowship Programme.

"Overall, The Regulation of Continental Shelf Development: Rethinking International Standards provides considerable food for thought for those wrestling with legal, scientific and policy issues associated with the exploitation of continental shelf resources. The book provides a lively, erudite, informed and informative commentary on the system of regulation underpinning these issues. As with its (now rather extensive set of) companion volumes in this popular series, this volume encompasses a range of papers and approaches. Some are relatively brief and conversational, others are extremely thorough and detailed; all are insightful and offer an interesting introduction and treatment of their constituent topics. As the Deepwater Horizon disaster attests, there remain considerable gaps in the legal regime governing the continental shelf, numerous legal approaches and philosophies and a considerable number of emerging industries and sectors for which there is a relatively limited degree of external oversight and regulation. These remain issues that will clearly require hard-negotiated solutions in the coming years. This comprehensive, helpful and highly informative collection nonetheless offers a valuable and highly recommended insight into current and future regulatory approaches." - Dr Richard Caddell, Institute of Shipping and Trade Law, Swansea University, in: The Journal of International Marine Law

• PrefaceAcknowledgmentsSetting the ContextThe Continental Shelf Regime under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea: Reflections after Thirty Years S. Jayakumar Part 1: Contemporary Uses of the Continental ShelfOffshore Wind Energy Development and Ecosystem-based Marine Management in the EU: Are the Regulatory Answers Really Blowing in the Wind? Ronán LongSubmarine Cables on the Continental Shelf Douglas R. BurnettMining for Marine Minerals Georgy CherkashovPart 2: Emerging Challenges to the Development of the Continental Shelf RegimeInternational Seabed Authority Mining Standards Michael W. LodgeThe Continental Shelf Beyond 200 NM: A First Look at the Bay of Bengal (Bangladesh/Myanmar) Case Ted L. McDormanInternational Standards for Offshore DrillingJ. Ashley RoachPart 3: Comparative Best Practices in Environmental Regulation of Continental Shelf ActivitiesRenewable Energy and Marine Spatial Planning: Scientific and Legal Implications Andreas Kannen, Hartwig Kremer, Kira Gee, & Marcus LangeThe Legal Framework for the Regulation of Safety and Environmental Issues on the Outer Continental Shelf Joanna MossopOffshore Safety Regimes – A Contested Terrain Preben H. Lindøe & Ole A. Engen Part 4: Probabilistic Risk Assessment for Continental Shelf DevelopmentEnvironmental Regulation and Probabilistic Risk AssessmentMartin G. MalschDisasters and the Continental Shelf: Exploring New Frontiers of Risk Bruce GlavovicPart 5: Decommissioning of Offshore Installations and StructuresGlobal Legal Regime on the Decommissioning of Offshore Installations and StructuresRobert BeckmanRegional Regulation of Offshore Oil and Gas Industry Decommissioning by the OSPAR Commission David JohnsonPart 6: Liability and CompensationThe Regime for Liability and Compensation for Oil Pollution Damage from Ships Alfred H. PoppBenefits and Risk of the Northern Sea Route to the North Pacific Sung-Woo LeeDeveloping Arctic Hydrocarbon Resources: Delineating and Delimiting Boundaries for Field Development in the Arctic Timothy J. Tyler, James L. Loftis, Emilie E. Hawker, Hana V. Vizcarra, & M. Imad KhanPart 7: REFLECTIONS ON the Unfinished Business of UNCLOS III Completing the Unfinished Business of UNCLOS III Brian FlemmingComments on the Unfinished Business of UNCLOS III John Norton MooreEpilogueBeyond the Outer Limit: 60-Year Reflections Edgar Gold