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Efforts to establish global environmental governance related to marine debris, including revamping UNCLOS, establishing new marine areas beyond national jurisdiction ( ABNJ) regimes, and even promulgating a global treaty committing states to reduce plastic usage and waste, are proliferating as we face the stark reality that plastic presence in marine ecosystems present a variety of increasing threats at the ecosystem level. The observational science is incontrovertible, and policy has been playing catch-up for well over two decades now. A recent flourish of counter-plastic policy, mostly focused on single-use products from bags to beauty products, is welcome.2 Yet the topic is often treated in isolation, as if plastic – and, by extension, the political and cultural narratives shaping the related discourse -- floats above the other problems it encounters, exacerbates, and deepens.

Item Type:	Non Refereed Conference Paper
Keywords:	marine debris, climate change, biodiversity, plastic pollution
Research Division:	Human Society
Research Group:	Political science
Research Field:	Environmental politics
Objective Division:	Environmental Management
Objective Group:	Coastal and estuarine systems and management
Objective Field:	Assessment and management of coastal and estuarine ecosystems
UTAS Author:	Stoett, P (Dr Peter Stoett)
UTAS Author:	Vince, J (Associate Professor Joanna Vince)
ID Code:	129687
Year Published:	2018
Deposited By:	Office of the School of Social Sciences
Deposited On:	2018-12-13
Last Modified:	2018-12-17
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