The journal aims to share theories, managements, and practices at international, national and local levels with researchers, policy makers, managers and other stakeholders, and thereby to advance ocean and coastal policy regimes at all levels. The journal is dedicated to full range of ocean and coastal policy studies.
From 15-17 November 2012, the Main Hall of the Faculty of Law of the University of Porto (FDUP) brought together eminent academics, distinguished members of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, directors of research centres in the area of the Law of the Sea, representatives of international organizations established under the framework of UNCLOS, policymakers and representatives of the entrepreneurial sector and the blue economy for the international conference '30 years after the signature of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea : the protection of the env
