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Preliminary Material -- The Continental Shelf Regime under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea: Reflections after Thirty Years / S. Jayakumar -- Offshore Wind Energy Development and Ecosystem-Based Marine Management in the EU: Are the Regulatory Answers Really Blowing in the Wind? / Ronán Long -- Submarine Cables on the Continental Shelf / Douglas R. Burnett -- Mining for Marine Minerals / Georgy Cherkashov -- International Seabed Authority Mining Standards / Michael W. Lodge -- The Continental Shelf beyond 200 NM: A First Look at the Bay of Bengal (Bangladesh/Myanmar) Case / Ted L. McDorman -- International Standards for Offshore Drilling / J. Ashley Roach -- Renewable Energy and Marine Spatial Planning: Scientific and Legal Implications / Andreas Kannen , Hartwig Kremer , Kira Gee and Marcus Lange -- The Legal Framework for the Regulation of Safety and Environmental Issues on the Outer Continental Shelf / Joanna Mossop -- Offshore Safety Regimes—A Contested Terrain / Preben H. Lindøe and Ole A. Engen -- Environmental Regulation and Probabilistic Risk Assessment / Martin G. Malsch -- Disasters and the Continental Shelf: Exploring New Frontiers of Risk / Bruce C. Glavovic -- Global Legal Regime on the Decommissioning of Offshore Installations and Structures / Robert Beckman -- Regional Regulation of Offshore Oil and Gas Industry Decommissioning by the OSPAR Commission / David Johnson -- The Regime for Liability and Compensation for Oil Pollution Damage from Ships / Alfred Popp -- Benefit and Risk of the Northern Sea Route to the North Pacific / Sung-Woo Lee -- Developing 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 and M. Imad Khan -- Completing the Unfinished Business of UNCLOS II / Brian Flemming -- Comments on the Unfinished Business of UNCLOS II / John Norton Moore -- Beyond the Outer Limit: 60-Year Reflections for a Luncheon Address / Edgar Gold.

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The lack of international conventional law governing the operational aspects of continental shelf activity may be characterized as unfinished business of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea. The Convention, adopted in 1982, generally addressed the issue but did not consider more detailed development of the legal regime for the continental shelf. In The Regulation of Continental Shelf Development: Rethinking International Standards , leading experts from around the world identify and explore a multitude of unresolved legal concerns related to the continental shelf. The current state of continental shelf activities is explored through the following lenses: • Contemporary uses, including an overview on offshore wind energy in the EU, an analysis of the use of submarine cables under UNCLOS, and a discussion of the varied potential for mining marine materials; • Emerging challenges, such as ISA seabed mining standards, the recent ITLOS decision regarding the Bay of Bengal, and the role of the IMO in establishing safety standards for transboundary effects of oil pollution for offshore platforms; • Comparative best practices in environmental regulation; • Probabilistic risk assessment, with a thorough definition of PRA and a critical examination of continental shelf disasters; • Decommissioning offshore installations and structures, including an overview of the global regime as particularly provided in Articles 60(3) and 80 of UNCLOS; • Liability and compensation; and finally, • Unfinished business on UNCLOS III. The varied voices of experts collected within The Regulation of Continental Shelf Development: Rethinking International Standards offer a timely understanding of past, present, and future issues related to the continental shelf. The volume is a must-read for all those interested in environmental law and the law of the sea.