OCEAN RESOURCES AND POLICY 



Abrams, Nancy Ellen. "The Environmental Problem of the Oceans: An Inter- 

 national Stepchild of National Egotism." Environmental Affairs, v. 5, winter 

 1976:3-32. 



Article examines "the main international conventions relating to pollution 

 of the marine environment, especially the newest one now being negotiated 

 at the United Nations Law of the Sea Conference." Concludes that the 

 conventions are inadequate and that the "practice of treating environ- 

 mental responsibility for the oceans according to traditional notions of 

 State sovereignty and as just one more branch of the 'Law of the Sea' con- 

 stitutes a serious error." 

 Alexander, Lewis M. "Regional Arrangements in the Oceans." American Journal 

 of International Law, v. 71, Jan. 1977: 84-109. 



Assesses alternative regional arrangements for future management of 

 ocean resources. 

 Amacher, Ryan C. and Sweeney, Richard James, eds. The Law of the Sea: U.S. 

 Interests and Alternatives. Washington, American Enterprise Institute for 

 Public Pohcy Research [cl976] 196 p. 



"This volume presents the proceedings of a conference sponsored by the 

 U.S. Treasury and the American Enterprise Institute to help focus attention 

 on U.S. interests in the law of the sea negotiations and to discuss possible 

 alternatives to a comprehensive treaty. This conference was held on 14 

 February 1975 and was attended by more than fifty private and govern- 

 ment lawyers, economists, and political scientists." 



Partial contents. — U.S. Security Interests and the Law of the Sea, by R. 

 Osgood. — U.S. Economic Interest in Law of the Sea Issues, by D. Johnson and 

 D. Logue. — The Third UN Conference on the Law of the Sea: Caracas 

 Review, by A. Hollick. — Alternatives to a Law of the Sea Treaty, by H. 

 Knight. 

 Bilder, Richard, B. The Settlement of International Environmental Disputes. (A 

 Series of Lectures Delivered at the Hague Academy of International Law. Sum- 

 mer 1975.) Madison, Wisconsin University. (Prepared for the National Oceanic 

 and Atmospheric Administration.) February 1976. 90 p. (Available from NTIS 

 as PB 254 076/3SL.) 



The monograph is the text of five lectures which were delivered under the 

 sponsorship of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace on Au- 

 gust 11-15, 1975, at the Peace Palace in The Hague, the Netherlands. These 

 lectures are on the subject of international environmental disputes. Included 

 at the end of the text is a selected bibliography of publications related to this 

 topic. 

 Bissell, William Kenneth. "Intervention on the High Seas: An American Approach 

 Employing Community Standards." Journal of Maritime Law and Com- 

 merce, V. 7, July 1976: 718-735. 



Article discusses the issues involved in an international convention per- 

 taining to the intervention by a coastal state when a traumatic oil spill 

 occurs on the high seas off its coast. States that the importance of the con- 

 vention "arises from the community standards it applies to an exclusive 

 coastal state activity. The functional approach employed by the Convention 

 appears superior to any mileage parameters for limiting coastal state compe- 

 tence." 

 Bobrow, Davis B. "International PoHtics and High-Level Decision Making: 

 Context for Ocean Policy." Ocean Development and International Law Journal, 

 V. 3, no. 2, 1975: 171-180. 



"Seeks to summarize in a necessarily oversimplified and somewhat sub- 

 jective fashion some relevant parts of the context that face professionals 

 working on research about or pertinent to ocean policy: the international 

 political environment and the milieu of high-level foreign policy decision- 

 making (including issue avoidance)." 



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