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Aid in the Age of Amazon: Imperial Logics, Pacific Resistance and an Alternate Paradigm

open access: yesDevelopment Policy Review, Volume 43, Issue 5, September 2025.
Abstract Recent disruptions in international aid, including geopolitics, technological innovation, and budget cuts, have prompted debate about paradigm shift. Drawing on critical Pacific scholarship and regional experience, we argue these changes represent consolidation rather than transformation, intensifying imperial logics that have long defined aid
Dame Meg Taylor   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Interpretation of International Legal Norms regarding the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf in the Context of National Interests of Russia and other Arctic States

open access: yesМосковский журнал международного права, 2017
In some Russian publications, the Commission on the limits of the continental shelf established in accordance with the UN Convention on the law of the sea 1982 (UNCLOS), was authorized to resolve legal issues of delimitation of the continental shelf, for
I. S. Zhudro
doaj   +1 more source

Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) Fishing in Africa: A Systematic Review of Challenges and Management Strategies

open access: yesAquaculture, Fish and Fisheries, Volume 5, Issue 4, August 2025.
ABSTRACT Given the rich marine biodiversity in African waters, IUU fishing continues to be a persistent problem throughout these regions. While existing studies have sought to deepen our understanding of this problem, data are still limited in developing countries.
Charlene Bwiza Simataa   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

International law concerning the environmental protection in Arctic: what is left behind UNCLOS and the BBNJ Agreement?

open access: yesFrontiers in Marine Science
The Arctic region, with its unique and fragile ecosystem, faces significant challenges in environmental protection due to climate change, increasing human activities, and geopolitical tensions.
Fangling Wu, Tiansheng Li
doaj   +1 more source

Growing an island: Okinotori [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
The UN Law of Sea defines an island as “a naturally formed area of land, surrounded by water, which is above water at high tide.” However, according to the same international law, not every kind of island engenders the same legal effects: “rocks which ...
De Meyer, Dirk
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Enhancing expert elicitation techniques through participatory mapping: Application to marine environment assessments in Palawan, Philippines

open access: yesGeo: Geography and Environment, Volume 12, Issue 2, July‐December 2025.
Short Abstract Expert elicitation (EE) techniques have been used to ensure a consultative and comprehensive process for achieving State of the Marine Environment assessments, especially in data‐poor environments. To date, EE methods have been limited in their ability to capture and represent data on spatially variable phenomena, instilling biases and ...
Billy Tusker Haworth   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Integrating Systems Methodologies for Australian Undersea Surveillance: A Systematic Literature Review

open access: yesSystems Engineering, Volume 28, Issue 4, Page 471-497, July 2025.
ABSTRACT Australia is a maritime nation, relying on access to its surrounding oceans for its economy and security. The Royal Australian Navy conducts undersea surveillance to monitor this vital maritime environment and gain insight into activities beneath the ocean's surface.
Timothy J. Milledge   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

UNCLOS under Fire: Recalibrating Maritime Security Governance [PDF]

open access: yesInternational and Comparative Law Quarterly
Abstract Maritime security challenges are intensifying globally, from armed attacks on shipping in the Red Sea to critical infrastructure sabotage and environmental threats from shadow fleets. These developments have led some to question whether the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) remains ‘fit for purpose ...
Christian Bueger   +2 more
openaire   +1 more source

Pelagic Imperialism in the 21st Century? A Geopolitical Economy of China's Distant Water Fishing Industry

open access: yesJournal of Agrarian Change, Volume 25, Issue 3, July 2025.
ABSTRACT China is the home of the world's largest distant water fishing (DWF) fleet. Narratives of its expansion portray China as a voracious consumer of ocean resources, as a serial abuser of labour and as aggressively expanding into developing country waters in an ‘extractivist’ drive that destroys small scale fishers' livelihoods.
Liam Campling
wiley   +1 more source

Kerch Strait incident in the Light of Unclos

open access: yesПроблеми Законності, 2019
The aim of the article is to give an international legal assessment to Kerch Strait incident of 25 November 2018. The article deals with such issues in detail: Description of events, Scope of the discussion, Rights of navigation in the Kerch Strait ...
Saulius Katuoka, Skirmantė Klumbytė
doaj   +1 more source

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