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COASTAL WATER BOUNDARIES: ISSUES AND JURISDICTIONS

Pages 35-45 | Published online: 23 Jan 2013
 

Abstract

In this paper we will examine the problems for resource management that arise because of uncertain boundaries and jurisdiction in marine waters. A survey will be made of cases of such issues from the local to the international level of conflict. These include private versus public rights in waters and implications for mariculture, constitutional dispute over control of pollution and resource development disagreements between Canada and other individual nations over boundaries (e.g. Georges Bank) and the settlement of an outer limit to national jurisdiction vis-a-vis the international community. In concluding we will review new concepts in applying what are essentially land use concepts of spatial organization for management to the sea.

Dans ce document, nous examinerons les problèmes de la gestion des ressources gui surviennent en raison de frontières et de juridictions incertaines dans les eaux marines. On fera une étude des cas relatifs à ces questions tant au niveau local ou international du conflit. Ceux-ci comprennent les droits publics contre les droits privés en ce gui concerne les eaux et les implications pour la maréculture, le débat constitutionnel sur le contrôle de la pollution et le développement des ressources, les désaccords entre le Canada et d’autres nations individuelles relativement aux frontières (ex : le banc Georges) et le règlement d’une limite externe à la juridiction nationale vis-a-vis la communauté internationale. Finalement, nous étudierons de nouveaux concepts en appliquant à la mer, des concepts d’organisation de l’espace pour la gestion essentiellement reliés a l’utilisation des terres.

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