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Marine Resource Damage Assessment

Liability and Compensation for Environmental Damage

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  • © 2005

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Editors:
  1. Frank Maes

    1. Department of Public International Law & Maritime Institute, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

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  • Multdisciplinary nature
  • Pictures the assessment of long term effects of hazardous substances released into the marine environment by means of models
  • Shows how economical evaluation tools can be used to estimate ecological damage to the marine environment
  • Looks at the potentials and constraints to recover environmental/ecological damage through liability regimes and compensation funds

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Legal Aspects of Environmental Damage

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Estimating Damages Under the 2004 EC Directive on Environmental Liability

      • Edward H. P. Brans
      Pages 3-25

    3. Environmental Damage and Belgian Law

      • Laurent Proot, Hubert Bocken
      Pages 27-41

    4. Compensation for Ecological Damage and Latvian Law

      • Laila Medin
      Pages 43-55

  4. Economic Valuation of Damage to the Marine Environment

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 133-133
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    2. Economic Assessment of Marine Quality Benefits: Applying the Use of Non-Market Valuation Methods

      • Paulo A. L. D. Nunes, Arianne T. De Blaeij
      Pages 135-163

    3. A Contingent Valuation Study of an Accidental Oil Spill Along the Belgian Coast

      • Karl Van Biervliet, Dirk Le Roy, Paulo A. L. D. Nunes
      Pages 165-207

  5. Trade-Off Between Environmental and Socio-Economic Factors in the Belgian Part of the North Sea

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 209-209
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    2. The Use of Mathematical Models for Estimating Oil Pollution Damage at Sea

      • Serge Scory
      Pages 211-252

    3. Socio-Economic Value of the Human Activities in the Marine Environment: The Belgian Case

      • Fanny Douvere
      Pages 253-269

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 271-284
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About this book

Prof. Dr. FRANK MAES Department of Public International Law & Maritime Institute Ghent University, Belgium Universiteitstraat 6, B – Ghent, Tel. : + 32 9 264 68 95, Fax: + 32 9 264 69 89 E-mail: Frank. Maes@UGent. be The contributions to this book are partly the output of a research project conducted between 1998 and 2002 in Belgium and a conference held at the Ghent University, Belgium, in June 2003 on the topic “Marine Resource Damage Assessment and Compensation for Environmental Damage” (MARE-DASM). The Belgian Federal Science Policy sponsored both the research and the conference. MARE-DASM research focused on: (i) the estimation and distribution of marine contaminants in order to assess their long term effects (ecotoxicology); (ii) the integration of these result into a Biological Effects SubModel and a mathematical model assessing the risks associated with accidental spillage of oil at sea and the damage this can cause (modelling); (iii) the assessment of the willingness to pay for ecological damage, based on the Contingent Valuation Method (economics); (iv) the development and evaluation of measures to be taken in order to guarantee a sustainable use of the Belgian part of the North Sea, taking into account the economic and social interests and values (social economics); (v) the potential to develop technical and legal procedures that allow ecological damage to the marine environment to be evaluated and compensated, taking into account constraints in national and international liability legislation (legal).

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Public International Law & Maritime Institute, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

    Frank Maes

About the editor

Frank Maes is professor of Public International Law, in particular International Environmental Law at Ghent University (Belgium) and research director at the Maritime Institute of Ghent University. He is mainly involved in the co-ordination and promotion of research projects on the protection of seas and oceans, fresh water legislation, climate change and sustainable development. He is also frequently acting as advisor to governments and non-governmental organizations on aspects of international environmental law.

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