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This chapter provides a plural feminist analysis of the environmental components of the international law of the sea, examining how marine protection is an intrinsic component of international environmental law. The chapter demonstrates how the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), and ocean governance generally, would benefit from recognition that no element of the international law of the sea is absent an environmental dimension: whether law establishing or regulating maritime jurisdictions, maritime trade, maritime scientific research, areas beyond national jurisdiction, shipping, navigation, fishing, or security at sea. In examining the interplay of international environmental law, UNCLOS, and ocean governance, the chapter provides a prompt for enriched feminist methodologies that articulate a decolonial feminist ocean perspective, or a hydrofeminism.
Author(s): Heathcote G
Editor(s): Katherine Keane and Rowena Maguire
Publication type: Book Chapter
Publication status: In Press
Book Title: Research Handbook on Feminist Approaches to International Environmental Law
Year: 2026
Acceptance date: 22/10/2025
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Place Published: Cheltenham
