Includes bibliographical references and index.

Opening address / Vladimir V. Golitsyn -- Sustainable production of offshore renewable energy : a global perspective / Gabriele Goettsche-Wanli -- Sustainable energy generation from the oceans / Henning Jessen -- International environmental law, sustainable generation of energy from the ocean, and small island developing states in the Pacific / David Kenneth Leary -- Realization of sustainable management/development under the Law of the Sea Convention? / Rudiger Wolfrum -- Toward sustainable management of marine natural resources / Yoshifumi Tanaka -- Sustainable management of ocean ecosystems : some comments / David Freestone -- The area : common heritage of mankind, sponsoring states of convenience, and developing states / Edwin Egede -- State practice in deep seabed mining : the case of the people's Republic of China / Keyuan Zou -- Multinational corporations and international environmental liability : international subjectivity and universal jurisdiction (backs and forths after Kiobel) / Pablo Ferrara -- OSPAR and coastal state encroachment on high seas submarine cable freedoms / Douglas R. Burnett.