论特别敏感海域制度在南中国海环境保护中的适用

Application of the system of particularly sensitive sea area in the environmental protection in the South China Sea

随着经济全球化和工业现代化的不断推进,海洋环境污染日益严重,已经成为全球性的重要问题。为保护海洋环境,各国纷纷制定国内法,并积极开展与他国的环境保护合作。南中国海是太平洋和印度洋之间的重要通道,其生态环境具有依赖性、多样性、脆弱性、自净能力差等特点,同时对沿岸国家的社会文化、经济、科学教育的发展具有重要意义。近年来,南中国海周边国家的环境保护滞后于经济发展,环境污染严重。为了保护南中国海的海洋环境,可通过特别敏感海域制度的适用,探索南中国海周边国家环境保护合作的新出路。

Along with the globalization and industrial modernization, marine environment pollution poses a severe threat to the global environment and attracts global concern. In order to protect the marine environment, coastal states enact domestic law, and actively foster environmental cooperation with other states. The South China Sea bridges the Pacific and Indian Ocean, it has unique marine ecosystem characteristics including dependence, diversity, vulnerability, and poor self-purification ability. The South China Sea is very important for the development of social culture, economy, science and education in its coastal states. In recent years, marine environment protection lags behind the economic development of the South China Sea neigh- boring states and the security of marine environment is severely threatened. For the purpose of the protection of the environ- ment in the South China Sea, the application of the system of partieurly sensitive sea area can be an effective mechanism for exploring new path to environmental cooperation among neighboring states of the South China Sea.