All Outputs (68)

Privatising fishing rights: The way to a fisheries wonderland? (2013)
Journal Article

There has been a great deal of recent research proposing that that privatisation of sovereign fishing rights is a solution to overfishing. This paper examines the claims made by Costello et al. in the context of the UK fisheries and discovers a numb... Read More about Privatising fishing rights: The way to a fisheries wonderland?.

Case commentary - fishing quota: A very large squatting claim? (2013)
Journal Article

United Kingdom Association of Fish Producer Organisations v
Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
[2013] This case was a judicial review over the reallocation of unused fishing quota from the from the larger to smaller scale op... Read More about Case commentary - fishing quota: A very large squatting claim?.

Up Frenchman's creek: A case study on managing commercial fishing in an English special area of conservation and its implications (2013)
Journal Article

The Habitats Directive has matured over the years since it
has been implemented. One of the last industries to feel its
application is the commercial sea fishing industry: the
industry which according to the Royal Commission on
Environmental Poll... Read More about Up Frenchman's creek: A case study on managing commercial fishing in an English special area of conservation and its implications.

2050: Sustainable oceans in a changing climate Cabot Institute Position Paper (2012)
Journal Article

The world’s oceans are a potentially hugely productive resource. Against a backdrop of climate change, ocean acidification, population growth and poor governance and regulation, it is vital that we change our management strategies to maximise marin... Read More about 2050: Sustainable oceans in a changing climate Cabot Institute Position Paper.

The marine and coastal access act-A hornets' nest? (2012)
Journal Article

The Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009 is now enacted into law. This paper looks at predictions made about new law by one of the authors, Peter Jones, in his paper The Marine Bill: Cornucopia or Pandora's Box [1] and assesses how successful the Act h... Read More about The marine and coastal access act-A hornets' nest?.

Who should have the right to catch fish? - video (2011)
Digital Artefact

A right to water - A geographico-legal perspective (2011)
Book Chapter

The habitats directive and fisheries administration: An immovable object meets and irresistible force? (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Fisheries are the exclusive competence of the European Union (EU), while responsibility for environmental law is shared between the EU and its member states. This makes it difficult for the EU to enforce environmental law against the EU common fisher... Read More about The habitats directive and fisheries administration: An immovable object meets and irresistible force?.

The EC Common Fisheries Policy. By ROBIN R. CHURCHILL and DANIEL OWEN (2011)
Journal Article

Book Review published in Journal of Environmental Law

Is the UK's fishery quota system a violation of human rights law? (2011)
Journal Article

The marine bill: An overview and some thoughts (2009)
Journal Article

This paper examines the Marine and Coastal Access Bill as it was tabled on 8th December 2008. It explores the failure of the Bill to include marine protection of over 3,000,000 km2 of the waters associated with overseas territories and Crown dependen... Read More about The marine bill: An overview and some thoughts.

Flood management: From defence to sustainability (2009)
Journal Article

The problem of flood risk management is as old as settled human communities, preceding even the first telling of Noah's biblical flood. It remains a significant concern today in our highly populated, intensively developed world, albeit that understan... Read More about Flood management: From defence to sustainability.

Tools for the equitable and sustainable use of ecosystem resources: Parts 1 and 2 (2009)
Journal Article

Recognition over the past century of the benefits provided by land and landscapes has seen a net shift in balance from the private interests of landowners towards broader beneficiaries across society, with post-apartheid constitutional and legislativ... Read More about Tools for the equitable and sustainable use of ecosystem resources: Parts 1 and 2.

Safeguarding the societal value of land (2009)
Journal Article

There is an extensive academic literature on relative cultural perspectives about the value of land, landscapes, ecosystems and natural resources (for example Posey and Strang). Our purpose in this paper is not to review that body of work. Rather,... Read More about Safeguarding the societal value of land.

Ecosystem services and the common law: Evaluating the full scale of damages (2009)
Journal Article

A review of mobile phone operators permitted development rights (2008)
Report

Response to: Another view on the public right to fish and the question of regulation or ownership (2008)
Journal Article

It is undeniable that there is an outer limit on the
appalling mess that is the public right to fish. The
difficult question, which has not been coherently
addressed by the courts in the rag tag and bobtail of
old, first instance and foreign deci... Read More about Response to: Another view on the public right to fish and the question of regulation or ownership.

Report into the establishment of marine protected areas in UK waters under existing legislation (2008)
Preprint / Working Paper

The purpose of this report is to put into plain English the legal issues, which underlie the establishment of marine protected areas (MPAs). Though there are numerous legal vehicles for regulating marine activities, the creation of closures for purel... Read More about Report into the establishment of marine protected areas in UK waters under existing legislation.

Damage by fishing in the UK's Lyme Bay - A problem of regulation or ownership? (2007)
Journal Article

Since last year, fisheries management has undergone serious analysis under the lens of the Marine White Paper. A change in the regulatory framework has been proposed, with the expansion of the jurisdictions of Sea Fisheries Committees, marine spatia... Read More about Damage by fishing in the UK's Lyme Bay - A problem of regulation or ownership?.

The draft Marine Bill: Will it deliver marine protection? (2007)
Journal Article

On 3rd April DEFRA published a draft Marine Bill to modernise the regulation of UK waters. At 687 pages (with guidance notes) the draft Bill is certainly comprehensive but does it deliver? The sensible place to start on this analysis is to look at... Read More about The draft Marine Bill: Will it deliver marine protection?.