Japan's Withdrawal from International Whaling Regulation

This book examines the impact and implications of Japan's withdrawal from the International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling (ICRW), which came into effect in July 2019.

Autorentext

Nikolas Sellheim is an independent consultant on international conservation law with a specialisation on the IWC and CITES. He is also co-Editor-in-Chief of Polar Record in the Scott Polar Research Institute at the University of Cambridge, UK. He has published extensively on different conservation regimes and has conducted two post-docs at Kobe University, Japan, and University of Helsinki, Finland.

Joji Morishita is a retired Professor at Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology, Japan. Since 2013, he had served as Japan's Commissioner to the IWC and from 2016 to 2018, he served as the Chair of the IWC.

Klappentext

This book examines the impact and implications of Japan's withdrawal from the International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling (ICRW), which came into effect in July 2019.

Inhalt

1. Introduction

Nikolas Sellheim

Joji Morishita

2. A memoir - Japan**'**s Road to Withdrawal from the International Whaling Commission (IWC)

Joji Morishita

P**artI -Institutional implications**

3. Exit Japan, exit IWC?

Steinar Andresen

David Aarvik Nese

4. As one door closes, does another open? Assessing the future of the protectionist agenda at the International Whaling Commission post-Japan**'**s withdrawal

Cameron Jefferies

Heather Stock

5. '**Opening up a procedure': Might the re-adherence of Iceland to the International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling in 2002 provide an example for Japan to follo**w?

Ed Couzens

6. Spill-over? CITES after Japan**'**s withdrawal from the Whaling Convention - a focus on Namibia and the SADC countries

Nikolas Sellheim

Part II - Cultural considerations

Indigenous Whaling post-Japanese IWC Withdrawa**l**

Malgosia Fitzmaurice

Agnes Rydberg

8. Lessons from the 1982 Canadian IWC Withdrawal and Restoration of Inuit Bowhead Hunting for Japan**'s 2019 IWC Withdrawal and Restoration of Coastal Whaling**

Barry Scott Zellen

9. Whales as '**sacred**' and '**profane**' in IWC member state cultures

Nikolas Sellheim

Part III - Perspectives

10. The Commercial Impacts of Japan**'**s Withdrawal from the ICRW - A Commentary

Gavin Carter

11. Whales on the Rise, the IWC Demise, and Global Environmental Diplomacy: An Epilogue to the Whaling Wars - A Commentary

Jos*éTruda Palazzo, Jr.*