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2011.
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| Summary/Abstract |
Degradation of the marine environment pushes the law of the sea to develop both substantial and procedural measures to safeguard marine environmental sustainability. Ill-planned and non-planned activities, land, sea or sea-bed based, become one of the main forces behind marine pollution. Environmental impact assessment (EIA), as an effective precautionary tool in evaluating and monitoring potential harm of planned activities, has been rapidly and widely integrated into both national and international legal regimes. However, the rudimentary and unelaborated EIA provisions in the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea do not create an effective marine EIA procedure, which can be improved through a comparative study of relevant sources of international law on EIA.
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