Publications on Ocean Development Non use Measures for Global Goods and Commons in International Law

This book examines existing and potential non-use measures across regimes regulating global goods and commons—i.e. measures prohibiting resources’ use in the high seas, deep seabed, atmosphere, outer space, and Antarctica—and factors contributing to their successful adoption and implementation. In a world facing major environmental crises, radical measures are increasingly called for. As a change in paradigm from our anthropocentric approach to the environment and its resources remains mostly aspirational, non-use measures present themselves as practical regulatory tools to respond to environmental degradation. This edited volume examines moratoria, bans, no-take or entry zones across regimes regulating global goods and commons. It analyses factors that have contributed to the successful adoption and implementation of non-use measures for resources in the high seas, deep seabed, atmosphere, and Antarctica. It then presents pathways for the development and adoption of further non-use measures in these areas and in outer space, before reflecting on such measures’ limitations and potential.