The Exclusive Economic Zone . A Latin American perspective

Contents: --The exclusive economic zone in a Latin American perspective: an introduction. --The origins of the concept of an exclusive economic zone: Latin American practice and legislation. --The economic intrest underlyng the first declaration on a meritime zone. --The exclusive economic zone in the ligth of negotiations of the third United Nations Conference on the law of the sea. --The role of informal negotiations in the search for a consensus on the law of the sea. --The legal status of the exclusive economic zone in the 1982 Convention on the law of the sea. --The exclusive zone: it's legal nature and the problem of military uses. --The regime of fisheries in the exclusive economic zone. --The Settlement of disputes regarding the law of the sea and it's bearing on the legal nature of the exclusive zone.