Covering the full array of issues involved — from maritime jurisdiction and boundaries to water quality protection to fisheries management and marine mammal protection to offshore energy development and climate change — each chapter addresses the current state of the law for the topic, followed by analysis of the emerging and unresolved issues. The book’s final chapters address the principles, legal authorities, and planning for a transition toward an ecosystem-based management approach to U.S. coastal and ocean areas.
Among the topics covered in this updated edition of Ocean and Coastal Law and Policy are:
- Maritime jurisdiction and boundaries
- The Public Trust Doctrine
- The role of the states
- Regulation of coastal wetlands and other U.S. waters
- Managing coastal development
- National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)
- Coastal water quality protection
- Ocean dumping and marine pollution
- Fisheries management and trade in fish and fisheries products
- The 1982 U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea
- Offshore energy development
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Pacific Flyway, with the National Audubon Society. He serves as a member of Audubon’s National Leadership Team and oversees Audubon’s conservation programs, including a $20 million budget and more than 100 professional staff in California, Washington, and Alaska. Previously, Sutton served for eight years as vice president of the Monterey Bay Aquarium, where he founded the Center for the Future of the Oceans, the Aquarium’s conservation advocacy arm. Before that, he helped establish ocean conservation programs at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation and the World Wildlife Fund, where he founded the Marine Stewardship Council based in London. He currently serves as chairman of the Wild Salmon Center and COMPASS in Portland, Oregon and as a board member of Ocean Champions. Sutton also serves on the advisory boards of the Ocean Foundation, the Sea Change Investment Fund, the Vermont Law School’s Environmental Law Program, and Light Hawk. Before joining the World Wildlife Fund staff, he spent more than a decade in government service, where he served as a special agent with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and as a park ranger with the National Park Service in Yosemite, Yellowstone, Biscayne, and Virgin Islands National Parks and Death Valley National Monument. In 2007 and again in 2009, Governor Schwarzenegger appointed Sutton as a member of the California Fish and Game Commission. He was elected president of the commission in early 2013. He also serves as summer faculty at the Vermont Law School, where he teaches ocean and coastal law. Sutton received a bachelor’s degree in wildlife biology from Utah State University in 1978 and pursued graduate studies in marine biology at the University of Sydney, Australia. In 1992, he received a law degree in international and natural resources law from George Washington University’s National Law Center in Washington, D.C. In 2013, he received the Distinguished Alumni Award from Utah State University.
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