โ Scribed by Dr Anthony Bergin
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In June of 1992, most of the nations of the world will convene in Rio de Janeiro for what is informally being called the 'Earth Summit' or more formally, the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED). Held on the 20th anniversary of the first United Nations Conference on the Human Environment (Stockholm, 1972), the conference could produce a set of international agreements, action programs and declarations even more significant than those which came out of the Stockholm meeting. The Stockholm conference is credited with the creation of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and stimulating international agreement on the London Dumping Convention, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), the MARPOL Convention (vessel-source pollution), and an eventual moratorium on commercial whaling, among other things.
Given the complexities of the current preparatory process for UNCED and the difficulty of following developments, researchers at the Center for the Study of Marine Policy, a part of the Graduate College of Marine Studies of the University of Delaware, will be preparing 'status reports' on the UNCED preparatory process at approximately 3 monthly intervals during the next 12 months for Ocean & Coastal Management's Recent Developments Section. 1 While the primary aim of these reports is to follow UNCED developments as they relate to ocean and coastal issues, important developments of general interest will be covered as well.
These reports are being prepared to assist interested members of the oceans and coastal community in following UNCED activities and in anticipating ocean and coastal-related initiatives that may emerge from the June 1992 meeting. Also, early information on emerging ocean developments may allow interested parties to better focus their efforts 81 Ocean & Coastal Management (17) (1992)---~ 1992 Elsevier Science Publishers Ltd, England.
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