The Convention on the Law of the Sea: A Preliminary Appraisal

In this Article, the author analyzes the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. The author seeks to address whether the Convention adequately addresses the need to establish equity in ocean space between the states, as well as whether the Convention has developed adequate legal regimes to promote the global management of marine resources. He concludes that in certain areas, the Convention does not reflect true compromise but rather vague drafting that masks continued disparate positions among the signing States

Foreword

The San Diego Law Review is to be congratulated for its ninth annual Law of the Sea (LOS) Symposium. The contents are well written, and all the articles make a significant contribution to the understanding of present and evolving law of the sea

<scp>ReSurveyEurope</scp>: A database of resurveyed vegetation plots in Europe

AbstractAimsWe introduce ReSurveyEurope — a new data source of resurveyed vegetation plots in Europe, compiled by a collaborative network of vegetation scientists. We describe the scope of this initiative, provide an overview of currently available data, governance, data contribution rules, and accessibility. In addition, we outline further steps, including potential research questions.ResultsReSurveyEurope includes resurveyed vegetation plots from all habitats. Version 1.0 of ReSurveyEurope contains 283,135 observations (i.e., individual surveys of each plot) from 79,190 plots sampled in 449 independent resurvey projects. Of these, 62,139 (78%) are permanent plots, that is, marked in situ, or located with GPS, which allow for high spatial accuracy in resurvey. The remaining 17,051 (22%) plots are from studies in which plots from the initial survey could not be exactly relocated. Four data sets, which together account for 28,470 (36%) plots, provide only presence/absence information on plant species, while the remaining 50,720 (64%) plots contain abundance information (e.g., percentage cover or cover–abundance classes such as variants of the Braun‐Blanquet scale). The oldest plots were sampled in 1911 in the Swiss Alps, while most plots were sampled between 1950 and 2020.ConclusionsReSurveyEurope is a new resource to address a wide range of research questions on fine‐scale changes in European vegetation. The initiative is devoted to an inclusive and transparent governance and data usage approach, based on slightly adapted rules of the well‐established European Vegetation Archive (EVA). ReSurveyEurope data are ready for use, and proposals for analyses of the data set can be submitted at any time to the coordinators. Still, further data contributions are highly welcome.</jats:sec

El espacio oceánico y la humanidad

Discurso pronunciado con ocasión de la recepción del premio que otorga anualmente la Fundación del Tercer Mundo, en Cartagena, Colombia, el 23 de febrero de 1984