The Oceans and environmental security: shared U.S. and Russian perspectives

Abstract

In 1989, the Institute for World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Marine Policy Center of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution instituted a joint project to examine environmental security as it applies to the world`s oceans. The book is a unified expression of their findings. The book focuses on seven specific concerns, land-based marine pollution, North Pacific fisheries depletion, hazardous materials transport, nuclear contamination, the Arctic Ocean, the Southern Ocean and Antarctica, and the Law of the Sea.