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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"International Waters"”.
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Protecting Underwater Cultural Heritage in International Waters
… UCH sites in less-actively regulated areas, like international waters, are at a high risk of having their material culture remains destroyed, pillaged, or commercially exploited, especially as technological innovations continue to increase access to the deep sea and its resources. International …
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Who is entitled to a shipwreck located in international waters? A contest for the spoils between salvors, the original owners, legitimate heirs, state governments and the historic preservationists
… persons and how different national laws and international law, treaties and conventions attempts to resolve such competing claims and the difficulties arising therefrom and possible solutions to eliminate such difficulties. The ocean covers 71 per cent of the Earth's surface and contains 97 …
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Raising the Black Flag : state capacity, geography, international law, and the resurgence of maritime crime
… turn to maritime crime in domestic and international waters, and others do not. In this work I advocate that generalizable geographic, political, and economic conditions can explain a significant portion of maritime crime. Broadly speaking these conditions are classified into geographic …
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At the Confluence: Participatory Development, State-Society Relations, and Transboundary Water Management in the Kura River Basin
… for multilateral donor-funded projects in international river basins (Gerlak 2007). Incorporating local stakeholders in project development and implementation has been described by the Global Environment Facility (GEF), a large multilateral financial mechanism promoting international …
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The Hot Struggle Over the Cold Waters: The Strategic Position of the Arctic Region During and After the Cold War
… on the global map and discussion over the cold waters became an important issue in international relations. During the Cold War, as it is today, the Arctic was a separate area of rivalry between the superpowers. Despite the fact that today's debate is based on different issues, including …
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The Ill-Treatment of Their Countrywoman: Liberated African Women, Violence, and Power in Tortola, 1807–1834
… leading to the Royal Navy’s campaign of policing international waters and seizing ships suspected of illegal trading. As the Royal Navy captured slave ships as prizes of war and condemned enslaved Africans to Vice-Admiralty courts, formerly enslaved Africans became “captured negroes” or “liberated …
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Sediment plumes and financial modeling in the context of deep-sea polymetallic nodule mining
… the analysis of royalty payment systems for the International Seabed Authority. A nodule collector vehicle will operate on the seabed to pick up polymetallic nodules and, inevitably, also certain amount of seabed sediment. Most of the unwanted sediment will be discharged directly at the rear of …
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Drifting absence :: drafting memory
… the reaches of the sky, the memorial drifts in international waters across the seemingly infinite plane of the ocean. Tracing a peripatetic path across the expanse, the memorial makes manifest the intangible ephemera of memory and silence through the studied manipulation of spatial experience.
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Nesting Ecology of Hawksbill Sea Turtles (Eretmochelys imbricata) on Utila, Honduras
… protection efforts for turtles that traverse international waters.</p>
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Casting Aside Bent Bodies: Embodied Violence as an Everyday Experience for Filipino Migrant Seafarers
… which flies a flag of convenience, travels in international waters, and has an all-Filipino crew. I focused my research on the history of colonialism, political economic shifts in the recognition and regulation of international and national policy, and the everyday practices of seafarers. …
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A matter of trust
… and Oliver is in his fifties. Once they are in international waters, Nick's mistrust of Oliver grows ever deeper, but Tina is convinced there's no threat, revelling in the attention and in the thrill of breaking boundaries. Oliver urges Tina to experiment, to defy convention, while Nick tries to …
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The Iran-Iraq conflict : recent developments in the international law of naval engagements
… 1982 Iraq had withdrawn to previously recognised international boundaries. The war on land lapsed into statement with neither side being capable of launching a sufficiently strong offensive to terminate hostilities. Partly in retaliation for Iran's successful blockade of Iraqi shipping and partly …
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The Iran-Iraq conflict: recent developments in the international law of naval engagements
… 1982 Iraq had withdrawn to previously recognised international boundaries. The war on land lapsed into statemate with neither side being capable of launching a sufficiently strong offensive to terminate hostilities. Partly in retaliation for Iran's successful blockade of Iraqi shipping and partly …
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International law and the preservation of underwater cultural heritage
… regime for underwater cultural heritage in international waters and introduces the UNESCO draft convention. It further critically evaluates the rationale for preservation expressed in the draft, the principles that underpin it and its scope. Chapter three critically assesses the proposed …
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Crime on the High Seas: What Conditions Are Necessary to Achieve Effective Maritime Governance Regime?
<p>This thesis explores why international maritime governance regimes have inconsistent rates of success. The global community relies on the world’s oceans for food, trade, and resources. Therefore, the regulation of these oceans is necessary to provide adequate passage through its waters and the …
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Ecology and conservation of albatrosses and petrels at sea off Brazil
… Procellariiformes (albatrosses, petrels and shearwaters) at sea in the southwestern Atlantic Ocean. Fourteen species and 301 individuals were sampled non-destructively using a cast net method described here. A method is described for ageing Atlantic Yellow-nosed (Thalassarche chlororhynchos) and …