Legal System Of Marine Protected Areas

The oceans is a treasure house of resources, for a long time, human’s over-exploitation of the oceans caused by the sharp drop in valuable resources, and thus lead to serious environmental problems. The globalization of environment and climate issues make mankind aware of the importance of protecting the marine environment. Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) has been established in the mid-twentieth century, trying to through specialized legislation and international environment cooperation to solve the practical problems of resources depletion and environment degradation. This paper use my professional knowledge of the law, choose the legal system of MPAs as study objects, based on the research data and the basis of the results at home and abroad, and put forward a sound proposal and I hope to take this research to play a helpful role in legislation and practice of the legal system of MPAs.The paper is divided into four chapters.The first chapter defines the concept of MPAs, and highlights the need for MPAs requires a separate legislation from the perspective of the particularity of the marine environment.The second chapter is the status quo of the international legal regime of MPAS, is divided into two parts. The first part describes the international treaties on MPAs; the latter part describes the legal systems of some typical countries that have an early start in this area.The third chapter analyzes the legislation, management and international cooperation deficiencies and defects of MPAs on the current international legal system. Reference to three typical countries who are most representative:the US, Canada and Australia, and learn experiences from their solutions. And also introduced the Mediterranean Model that established by the countries around the Mediterranean on an innovative co-management of MPAs.Chapter four based on China’s national conditions, from the domestic legislation and the international treaties on the current status of the MPAs legal system, combined with China’s actual conditions, proposed the problems of the legal system, the planning system and the management system. The latter part cum hope that through the description and analysis in the first four chapters, absorbing international advanced experience, combined with the practical aspects of the MPAs legal system, and proposed a series of improvement measures to provide references to the legal system construction for the protection of MPAs.The conclusion is a summary of the full text view. Pointed out that because the specificity of MPAs that cross-reference and international cooperation to solve current problems of the legal system is necessary. Nations all around the world must improve the special legislation, to strengthen international cooperation in order to create a good mechanism to protect the marine environment, and build the homeland of humanity.