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The Sargasso Sea High Seas EBSA After Ten Years: Is It Still Relevant and How Has It Helped Conservation Efforts?

open access: yesFrontiers in Marine Science, 2022
The Sargasso Sea is a high seas ecosystem located within the North Atlantic Subtropical Gyre. The floating Sargassum macroalgae for which it is named support a diverse and productive ocean ecosystem.
Howard S. J. Roe   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Promoting equity in the use of algorithms for high-seas conservation

open access: yesOne Earth, 2021
Spatial optimization algorithms show potential for prioritizing conservation areas on the high seas. Yet algorithmic approaches stand to reinforce global power asymmetries without careful consideration of process.
Melissa S. Chapman   +12 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The Voice of Science on Marine Biodiversity Negotiations: A Systematic Literature Review

open access: yesFrontiers in Marine Science, 2020
Over one hundred governments are currently negotiating a new legally binding instrument for the conservation and sustainable use of marine biological diversity in areas beyond national jurisdiction (BBNJ).
Ina Tessnow-von Wysocki   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Science Collaboration for Capacity Building: Advancing Technology Transfer Through a Treaty for Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction

open access: yesFrontiers in Marine Science, 2020
Marine technology transfer and capacity building are key elements in the development of a historic new agreement for the conservation and sustainable use of marine biodiversity in areas beyond national jurisdiction (BBNJ agreement) under the United ...
Harriet Harden-Davies, Paul Snelgrove
doaj   +1 more source

HSA Briefing 4: Wonders of the High Seas [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
From 1-4 April, 2014, governments gathered at the United Nations in New York, for ground-breaking discussions on whether to launch negotiations for a new high seas biodiversity agreement under UNCLOS. These discussions continued at the UN from 16-19 June,

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New organic-walled dinoflagellate cysts from recent sediments of central Asian seas [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
Recent to sub-recent sediments from the Caspian Sea, the Kara-Bogaz-Gol Bay, the Enseli lake and the Aral Sea contain the new organic-walled dinoflagellate cysts Caspidinium, Caspidinium rugosum and Impagidinium caspienense.
Marret, F   +3 more
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Drug Trafficking at Sea: A Practice- Based Analysis of International Law and the US Approach to High Seas Interdictions [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
The thesis investigates international law and jurisdiction over illegal drug trafficking vessels on the high seas. Illegal drug trafficking is prevalent, with, for example, States reporting record drug seizures from Drug Trafficking Vessels [DTVs] when ...
Louis, Nicholas
core   +1 more source

Wind Energy on the High Seas: Regulatory Challenges for a Science Fiction Future

open access: yesEnergies, 2022
This paper aims to study the current regulation and governance of wind energy turbines on the high seas and detect regulatory challenges. We focus on the existing regulatory framework to develop marine wind farms in areas beyond national jurisdiction ...
Ignacio Herrera Anchustegui   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Sargasso Sea Commission: An Evolving New Paradigm for High Seas Ecosystem Governance?

open access: yesFrontiers in Marine Science, 2021
The Sargasso Sea is to be found within the North Atlantic Subtropical Gyre. Its borders are the major ocean currents. These boundaries shift with these currents, but there is a core area that covers approximately 2 million square nautical miles situated ...
D. Freestone
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Aligning marine spatial conservation priorities with functional connectivity across maritime jurisdictions

open access: yesConservation Science and Practice, 2020
Globally, maritime boundaries on oceans form the basis of governance and management of natural resources, yet the fish, and other marine resources neither conform nor confine to these artificial boundaries. As goods and services from marine life continue
Joseph M. Maina   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

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