[from the INDEEP mailing list]
The following article maybe of interest:
Aline Jaeckel, “An Environmental Management Strategy for the International Seabed Authority? The Legal Basis”, International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law, available as advance article: http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/journals/10.1163/15718085-12341340
This article analyses the ISA’s mandate to adopt a comprehensive environmental management strategy. It outlines the legal basis of eight potential components of such a strategy. Although several of these have been endorsed by the ISA on a temporary or ad hoc basis, substantial gaps remain. An environmental management strategy could provide for systematic environmental safeguards during both exploration and exploitation for minerals.
