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Record Nr.

UNINA9910746089903321

Autore

Lawand Junior Antonio Elian

Titolo

Legal Aspects of the Recovery of Areas Degraded by Mining in the International Seabed / / by Antonio Elian Lawand Junior

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2023

ISBN

3-031-12492-8

Edizione

[1st ed. 2023.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (122 pages)

Collana

SpringerBriefs in Law, , 2192-8568

Disciplina

341.4/55

346.044

Soggetti

Law of the sea

International law

Aeronautics - Law and legislation

Environmental law, International

Environmental management

Law of the Sea, Air and Outer Space

International Environmental Law

Sources and Subjects of International Law, International Organizations

Public International Law

Environmental Management

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction -- 2. About the Area -- 3. Recovery of Degraded Area -- 4. On the Apparent Material Antinomy between Compliance with Mining Obligations in the Area and Mining Exploitation Rights and Commitments -- 5. Conclusions.

Sommario/riassunto

This book offers an innovative approach to the recovery of areas degraded by international seabed mining, one that considers the feasibility of a standard that would allow mining in these areas in apparent antinomy with their other potential present and future uses. The book begins by identifying and explaining the legal norms that allow mining in these areas and the rights and obligations in mining exploitation concomitant to other uses of them, based on an analysis of



mining operations’ duty of Recovery of Degraded Areas. It reveals an antinomy in international law, namely the compatibility of degraded areas and their various present and future uses with the mining of the international seabed. The freedom to mine these areas could destroy the least impacted biome on the planet and undermine the international law system represented by the Cultural Heritage of Mankind and the Third United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (“UNCLOS III”). Recovery of Degraded Areas is anobligation in mining and, as such, requires structural changes in the reading of UNCLOS III; recognizing international roles other than those related to sovereignty; projecting the law into the future; and rereading it in light of international environmental law and its instruments.