Fisheries conservation and trade rules : ensuring that trade law promotes sustainable fisheries
1998
Downes, David R. |
van Dyke, Brennan |
Downes, David R.
Achieving sustainable fisheries : implementing the new international legal regime
2003
De Fontaubert, Charlotte |
Deere, Carolyn |
Downes, David R. |
Lutchman, Indrani |
All indicators point to a worsening state of global fisheries. According to the latest figures of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, 70% of fish stocks worldwide are fished at full capacity, overfished, or recovering. This publication aims to demystify the mosaic of new international instruments and measures, and to interpret them in a set of clear rights and obligations which, if implemented in earnest, will address this crisis.
Integrating implementation of the Convention on biological diversity and the rules of the World Trade Organization
1999
Downes, David R. |
In the 1990s, the international community placed both biodiversity protection and trade liberalisation high on its agenda, resulting in the formation of global agreements and institutions, such as the 1992 Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and the World Trade Organization (WTO). Distinct in character, they are increasingly linked through the many ways that trade rules affect biodiversity.
Biodiversity in the seas : implementing the Convention on biological diversity in marine and coastal habitats
1996
De Fontaubert, Charlotte |
Downes, David R. |
Agardy, Tundi |
Intended to promote effective application of the biodiversity Convention in coastal and marine environments. It is based in large part on the recommendation of the "Jakarta Mandate" agreed to by the Parties to the Convention at their Second Conference in Jakarta in November 1995 and which identified the major threats to marine and coastal biodiversity and the principal legal and policy measures needed to address them.