Papers resulting from a conference held Aug. 21-23, 2008, hosted by the Fridtjof Nansen Institute.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Preliminary Material / Davor Vidas and Peter Johan Schei -- Introduction The World Ocean in Globalisation: / Davor Vidas and Peter Johan Schei -- Key Challenges and Developments: Science, Economic Uses and Law The Anthropocene Ocean in Its Deep Time Context / Jan Zalasiewicz and Mark Williams -- Marine Science in the Past 25 Years: / John Montgomery and Lionel Carter -- The Sea, Science and the Human Dimension / Marie Jacobsson -- Economic Uses of the Oceans and the Impacts on Marine Environments: / Harry N. Scheiber -- Problems of High Seas Governance / David Freestone -- Climate Change and the Oceans Impacts of Climate Change on Marine Ecosystems / Yvon Le Maho and Joël Durant -- The Polar Oceans and Climate Change / Olav Orheim -- Climate Change and Arctic Governance: / David D. Caron -- The Climate Regime: / Steinar Andresen and Tora Skodvin -- Sea-Level Rise and the Law of the Sea: / Moritaka Hayashi -- Sustainability of Fisheries High Seas Fisheries Today: / Nobuyuki Yagi -- High Seas Fisheries Governance: / Kristina M. Gjerde -- High Seas Fisheries Management: / Gerard van Bohemen -- Reducing Seabird Bycatch: / Euan Dunn -- Global Maritime Transport: Challenges and Responses Mare Liberum or Mare Restrictum? Challenges for the Maritime Industry / Eelco Leemans and Thomas Rammelt -- Global Shipping and the Introduction of Alien Invasive Species / Stephan Gollasch -- Globalisation and Challenges for the Maritime Arctic / Lawson W. Brigham -- The International Maritime Organization and the Protection of the Marine Environment / Jean Claude Sainlos -- Regulatory Layers in Shipping / Henrik Ringbom -- Ballast Water and Alien Species: / Davor Vidas and Davor Markovčić Kostelac -- Seas Surrounding Europe: Regulatory Responses to Global Challenges The European Union and the Challenges of Marine Governance: / Robin Churchill -- Towards Further Reform of the Common Fisheries Policy / David J. Agnew -- The European Union and the Regulation of Underwater Noise Pollution / Irini Papanicolopulu -- The Black Sea: / Nilüfer Oral -- Baltic Sea Gas Pipeline: / Hans Corell -- The Mediterranean Response to Global Challenges: / Evangelos Raftopoulos -- Index of Treaties and Other International Instruments / Davor Vidas and Peter Johan Schei -- Subject Index / Davor Vidas and Peter Johan Schei.

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Have we already entered a new epoch, the Anthropocene, dominated by the impact of human activities? What of the effects of increasing globalisation on the seas? Thirty-three experts on marine affairs and the law of the sea examine the emerging challenges for the World Ocean, inquiring into developments prompted by globalisation in central issue-areas of the law of the sea. These are explored systematically in sections on the key challenges and developments in the interface of science, economic uses and law (Part I); climate change and the oceans (Part II); sustainability of fisheries (Part III); challenges and responses related to global maritime transport (Part IV); and the regulatory responses to global challenges in seas surrounding Europe (Part V).