Dr Tom Appleby's Outputs (68)

Holding back the tide: An exploration of the possible legal basis for a claim of a right to be protected from flooding (2016)
Journal Article

As there is no general right to be defended from flooding, any measures taken to protect communities from flooding would appear to be motivated by political considerations. This article explores the possibilities open to a party seeking to benefit fr... Read More about Holding back the tide: An exploration of the possible legal basis for a claim of a right to be protected from flooding.

The UK scallop fishery: Time for a fundamental review (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The global fishing industry is facing unprecedented pressures. In the past (for a variety of reasons) the entire ocean was designated as a fishery using any gear type but increasingly this approach is untenable. The seas and the fishery (albeit thr... Read More about The UK scallop fishery: Time for a fundamental review.

Society and the Severn (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Dr Thomas Appleby, Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of the West of England and part of the International Water Security Network spoke on Society and the Severn and discussed different forms of control and protected interests and regulations a... Read More about Society and the Severn.

Sirens of the sea? Marine reserve designation on the Isle of Arran (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The Lamlash Bay no take zone was the first and only community proposed no take marine reserve in the UK. To create the marine reserve required marine management in Scotland to rethink its relationship with the marine environment and local communitie... Read More about Sirens of the sea? Marine reserve designation on the Isle of Arran.

Governance in the marine environment (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The governance of the UK Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies is complex, endlessly fascinating and often politically charged. There is no area where this complexity is more demonstrable than in the marine environment, where the issues of ext... Read More about Governance in the marine environment.

Interview with Dr Thomas Appleby and Luke Jerram at the artwork Withdrawn (2015)
Digital Artefact

The marine biology of law and human health (2015)
Journal Article

© Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 2015. This review uses a multidisciplinary approach to investigate legal issues concerning the oceans and human health. It firstly seeks to define the boundaries of oceans and human health researc... Read More about The marine biology of law and human health.

Fisheries law in action: An exploration of legal pathways to a better managed marine environment (2015)
Thesis

This narrative addresses the issue of fisheries law, a specialist area combining aspects of international law, EU law, legislation from the UK and the devolved administrations and the common law. The research appraised and analysed marine fishing ri... Read More about Fisheries law in action: An exploration of legal pathways to a better managed marine environment.

The Chagos marine protected arbitration-A battle of four losers? (2015)
Journal Article

© The Author 2015. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. The proclamation of a marine protected area by David Miliband in the Chagos Archipelago in 2010 triggered a complaint of infringement of sovereignty by Mauritius and a huma... Read More about The Chagos marine protected arbitration-A battle of four losers?.

Interview with Dr Thomas Appleby (2015)
Digital Artefact

Interview on the management of the Severn estuary

Guidelines for sustainable intertidal bait and seaweed collection in Wales: Legislative review (2014)
Report

The foreshore is subject to various public rights including the public right to fish in tidal waters. Ancillary to this right is the public right to collect, for personal use, bait on the foreshore and floating seaweed from the tidal waters.

The... Read More about Guidelines for sustainable intertidal bait and seaweed collection in Wales: Legislative review.

Return to Eden: Management of an inshore and intertidal marine environment (2014)
Journal Article

Time and Tide (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

A short film on the implications of maximum sustainable yield in the Clyde with interviews from local stakeholders

A new approach to delivering fisheries management in English European marine sites (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Management of potentially damaging projects in Eu marine protected areas - so-called Natura 2000 Sites - are meant to be subject to strict protection measures. Despite this, up until 2012, there was no strategic approach across the UK to regulate pot... Read More about A new approach to delivering fisheries management in English European marine sites.

Law and science in conflict: The resurrection of maximum sustainable yield (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

For the first time the law on maximum sustainable yield changes the burden of proof, it is now up to the government to demonstrate sustainable fisheries. The right to fish is no longer untrammelled.

Minimising unsustainable yield: Ten failing European fisheries (2014)
Journal Article

Ten European fish stocks recognised by the European Union as "outside safe biological limits" are considered in light of widespread reforms to fisheries legislation in 2013, particularly the legal responsibility to exploit these resources sustainably... Read More about Minimising unsustainable yield: Ten failing European fisheries.

Maximum sustainable yield? Fish, fishers and people (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper examines the basis of 4 fundamental laws governing fisheries and human interaction with the sea: coastal states’ rights, obligations for sustainable fishing, duties for health and safety at sea and the public trust obligations in the way t... Read More about Maximum sustainable yield? Fish, fishers and people.

Time and Tide (2014)
Digital Artefact

Plenty More Fish in the Sea? A working paper on the legal issues related to fishing beyond maximum sustainable yield: A UK case study (2013)
Preprint / Working Paper

Maximum sustainable yield: from science to practice via the law (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution