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Challenges and Foundations of Sustainable Ocean Governance

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The article gives an overview of environmental conflicts in the marine realm. It also explains the central challenges and elements of sustainable international resource management and environmental conservation in this area. Overall, it is intended to provide an analytical frame for the many existing ideas, theories, and arguments from political and legal sciences as well as economics that embark on the quest for the elements of effective and sustainable ocean governance.

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    Various scholars show the possibilities of economic growth based on energy and raw material efficiency, see among others and with further references E.-U. von Weizsäcker 2009.

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Markus, T. (2018). Challenges and Foundations of Sustainable Ocean Governance. In: Salomon, M., Markus, T. (eds) Handbook on Marine Environment Protection . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60156-4_28

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