Interdisciplinary Research Projects on Ocean Issues
Overview
As a university-level research institutions, CIL undertakes interdisciplinary research projects on ocean issues, especially on the marine environment. These projects are led by Senior Research Fellow Youna Lyons from the Ocean Law and Policy team and involve multi-disciplinary teams and expertise from other research centres from NUS and outside.
Past special projects in international law include transboundary pollution and best treaty practice.
Pollution from Marine Plastics in the Seas of ASEAN+3
The Ocean Law and Policy Programme has been engaged in the study of the international and regional governance of pollution from marine plastics since 2016. Our work has been supported by several project grants including from the Singapore Maritime Institute, the High Commission of the United Kingdom to Singapore, and the United Nations Environment Programme through the Coordinating Body on the Seas of East Asia (COBSEA).
Prospects for IMO measures in EBSAs under the CBD
Prospects for IMO measures in Ecologically or Biologically Significant Areas (EBSAs) under the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)
Feasibility study on the development of KOSMESEA
CIL-OLP is coordinating a feasibility study for the development of a Regional Knowledge Organisation System for Marine Environmental Data in Southeast Asia (KOSMESEA). The project started in October 2019 and is due for completion on 30 June 2021.
NUS Satellite Research Project on the South China Sea
CIL led and coordinated a special project on the South China Sea entitled ‘Multidisciplinary Satellite Survey of the Shallow Geographic Feature in the SCS’. This Project involved a satellite image-based mapping of all visible insular geographic features in the SCS, including natural and man-made features, description of their geographic characteristics, natural coastal and marine habitats as well as land cover.
Past International Law Projects
This conference has been organized in 2014 and followed by the publication of an edited volume of the same title in 2015. The conference and publication examined the international legal principles governing transboundary pollution; the application of the state responsibility doctrine in the context of transboundary pollution