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Future Prospects of Marine Environmental Governance

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This chapter provides an outlook on the future of sustainable ocean governance with a particular focus on environmental protection. It identifies fragmentation, knowledge gaps, lack of international cooperation and coordination, as well as ineffective enforcement as some of the pressing challenges. These will likely increase both quantitatively and qualitatively in the future, as new and emerging ocean uses will be added to the list of stressors. This chapter discusses a number of options for the improvement of marine environmental governance into the future.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Research Centre for European Environmental Law, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany

    Pradeep Singh

  2. International Research Training Group INTERCOAST – ‘Integrated Coastal Zone and Shelf-Sea Research, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany and University of Waikato, Waikato, New Zealand

    Pradeep Singh

  3. Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, 2019, Australia

    Aline Jaeckel

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  1. German Advisory Council on the Environment, Berlin, Germany

    Markus Salomon

  2. University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany

    Till Markus

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Singh, P., Jaeckel, A. (2018). Future Prospects of Marine Environmental Governance. In: Salomon, M., Markus, T. (eds) Handbook on Marine Environment Protection . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60156-4_32

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