Titel
Who owns marine biodiversity? Contesting the world order through the ‘common heritage of humankind’ principle
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Abstract
The governance of marine biodiversity in areas beyond national jurisdiction (BBNJ) lacks a legal framework that would ensure the conservation and sustainable use of the oceans. In order to fill this gap, governments have been negotiating a new treaty under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. Negotiations have been afflicted by polarisation between two principles: The ‘Freedom of the High Seas’ (FOS) and the ‘Common Heritage of Humankind’ (CHP). Instead of discussing the CHP from a purely legal perspective, we examined, through an ethnographic lens, how it has become a practice of contestation: it is used as a tool and negotiation technique to challenge deeply rooted inequalities in the current world order. The CHP could make a difference if it was integrated into the text as a general principle committing all states to protect and preserve BBNJ for future generations – regardless of their imminent economic value as commercial assets.
Stichwort
Environmental Science (miscellaneous)Sociology and Political ScienceCommon heritage of humankindglobal commonsmarine biodiversityBBNJocean conservationnegotiationsmarine genetic resourceshigh seascollaborative event ethnography
Objekt-Typ
Sprache
Englisch [eng]
Persistent identifier
phaidra.univie.ac.at/o:1196355
Erschienen in
Titel
Environmental Politics
ISSN
0964-4016
Erscheinungsdatum
2021
Seitenanfang
1
Seitenende
25
Publication
Informa UK Limited
Fördergeber
European Union (all programmes) — 804599
Erscheinungsdatum
2021
Zugänglichkeit
Rechteangabe
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