The Oceanic Circle: Governing the Seas as a Global Resource

by Elisabeth Mann Borgese

Book Overview

This book's title is taken from Mohandas Gandhi's comparison of the social order to the ever-widening circles that result when a stone is dropped in the ocean. In much the same way, the governance of the world's oceans--as generated by the United Nations' 1982 Convention on the Law of the Sea, and the subsequent conventions, agreements, and programs following the 1992 Rio Earth Summit--is now affecting the social order of the individual, the village,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9280810286
• ISBN13: 9789280810288
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: United Nations University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.8" x 9.3"