Investigação científica marinha: aspectos jurídicos

Abstract

Technological advances combined with science enabled man to develop new activities in the marine environment capable of generating progress and wealth. Consequently, the regulation of the use of the sea improved the concept of freedom to enjoy the great potential of the seas and oceans and listed a new spatial marine order giving coastal states sovereignty and jurisdictional rights to these spaces. This research, based on maritime studies and their regulation, within an exploratory perspective, aims to analyze marine scientific research and its functionality in the territorial sea, exclusive economic zone and on the continental shelf as a tool to increase marine knowledge, which allows greater economic use of these areas. Outside the jurisdictional areas, marine scientific research, as one of the pillars for the governance of the seas and oceans, is the means used by the Seabed Authority to achieve technological innovations capable of increasing the level of economic utilization of the Area and developing its potential to help the progress of humanity through international cooperation. In Brazil, marine scientific research has contributed to increasing the extension of the Brazilian continental shelf, as well as creating conditions for its economic development, based on a national policy that has achieved success in its goals of having greater knowledge of its sea jurisdiction with the participation of state and private actors. In this context, the regulation of marine scientific research is very important because it is the activity that has contributed to the development of the marine environment with criteria of economic and environmental sustainability