Responsibility to Ensure

Sponsoring States' Environmental Legislation for Deep Seabed Mining and China's Practice
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-90-04-47233-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 12, 290 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 640 g

Reihe: Maritime Cooperation in East Asia

The contractors are those private or state-owned companies that carry out exploration and exploitation activities in the Area, which, due to the lack of subjectivity under international law, are not obliged by the UNCLOS. In this book, Xiangxin Xu highlights and analyzes the sponsoring State’s primary responsibility, i.e., ensuring its sponsored contractors’ compliance with environmental obligations under the UNCLOS and related legal instruments by enacting national legislation. She examines how and to what extent the sponsoring State validates and implements the international system at the domestic level and makes up for the shortcomings of the international system in managing contractors. The author further takes China’s legislation as an example and provides how it can be improved.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Xu, Xiangxin

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationales See-, Luft- und Weltraumrecht
• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationales Verwaltungs-, Umwelt- und Gesundheitsrecht

Über Autor(innen)

Xiangxin Xu, Ph.D. (2020), Kiel University, Germany. She holds a research position at the Center for Polar and Deep Ocean Development, KoGuan Law School, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU). Her specialty is on legal issues regarding deep seabed mining and she has publications in the relevant areas.