Conservation of marine resources in the former Soviet Union: An environmental perspective
| Autor: | Peter H. Pearse, Elena N. Nikitina |
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| Rok vydání: | 1992 |
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Marine conservation
Restructuring media_common.quotation_subject Exclusive economic zone Management Monitoring Policy and Law Development Special economic zone Political economy Political Science and International Relations Economics Democratization Bureaucracy Economic system Law Communism Sovereign state media_common |
| Zdroj: | Ocean Development & International Law. 23:369-381 |
| ISSN: | 1521-0642 0090-8320 |
| Popis: | In the 1980s the Soviet Union, like other coastal states, extended its economic zone and put in place new policies and structures for managing marine resources. These measures followed years of neglect, and resource conservation did not fit well with Marxian doctrine or the centrally planned economic system. Hence, overexploitation and environmental deterioration continued. Democratization, peres‐troika, and the restructuring of bureaucracies in the late 1980s gave new impetus to resource conservation. But these developments were overtaken by the upheavals of 1991 in which the communist system was repudiated, the economy almost collapsed, and the Soviet Union disintegrated. In the new sovereign states (especially Russia, which inherited most of the Soviet Union's extended economic zones) a more decentralized management regime is emerging. These states have opportunities to significantly improve their production of marine products but face a formidable task in reversing the depletion of resources ... |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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