A Dual Approach to Ocean Governance addresses the validity and limits of the zonal and integrated management approaches to ocean governance in international law of the sea. This study will be of particular value to those with an interest in international law, environmental law and natural resources and conservation.

Contents: A new perspective on ocean governance; Part I The Dual Approach to Conservation of Marine Living Sources: Limits of the zonal management approach to conservation of marine living resources; The quest for an integrated management approach to the conservation of marine living resources. Part II The Dual Approach to Conservation of Marine Biological Diversity: Conservation of marine biological diversity in international law: a general appraisal; Marine protected areas in conservation of marine biological diversity; in search of an integrated management approach. Part III Marine Scientific Research as a Foundation of Ocean Governance: The obligation to co-operate in marine scientific research and conservation of marine living resources and biological diversity; General conclusion; Selected Bibliography; Index.

'Dr Tanaka finds that the zonal approach, which divides the sea into jurisdictional spaces, and the integrated management approach, which considers the sea as one physical unity, should be reconciled. I share many, even if not all, of his remarks. But this is the most clear, logical, documented and thought-provoking book on international law of the sea that I have read in the last decade.' Tullio Scovazzi, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy