Offshore marine conservation in the north-east Atlantic : opportunities and challenges for the developing regime

This thesis examines the development of the first offshore Marine Protected Area (MPA) on the UK Continental Shelf, the Darwin Mounds area of cold-water coral reefs discovered in 1998 off the North-West coast of Scotland. Following the 1999 Greenpeace High Court judgment and subsequent rulings by th...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: De Santo, Elizabeth Maxwell
Published: University College London (University of London) 2007
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.497797