This paper reviews the codification of the international standard for the exploitation of the continental shelf, the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS). The “Law of the Sea” convention or treaty, this agreement entered into force in 1994 yet still has not been ratified...

The article reviews the legal and political process of implementation of an integrated ocean management of the marine Arctic, and examines whether there are available adequate area-based management tools that facilitate the possibility of including also shipping activities in this new approach...