1NEP.OCEANS AND COASTS RELATED PROGRAMMES IN UNEP and in other INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND PROCESSES,NAIROBI,29-30AUGUST 2007.
2Sulan Chen,Instrumental and Induced Cooperation:Environmental Politics in the South China Sea 69(Dec.7,2005)(unpublished Ph.D dissertation,Univ.of Maryland),http://www.lib.umd.edu/drum/bitstream/1903/3227/1/umi-umd-3053.pdf.
3The statement is made based on a comprehensive review of all the meeting agenda and reports of all the COBSEA meetings from 1981to 1994.
4UNEP.Project Document for the UNEP/GEF South China Sea Project.www.gefweb.org,2001.
5REPORT OF THE FIRST REGIONAL PARTNERS WORKSHOP ON THE REGIONAL COORDINATION MECHANISMS IN THE EAST ASIAN SEAS REGION,ANNEXⅣ,Bangkok,Thailand,9-10May,2005.
8COBSEA,available at,http://www.cobsea.org/(last visited on March 9,2013).
9See para.19of UNEP(OCA)/EAS IG 5/6:Integrated management efforts shall draw on the spirit of Chapter17,Agenda 21of UNCED.The action plan should eventually see the“implementation of integrated coastal and marine management and sustainable development plans and programmes at appropriate levels.”.
