Construction And Perfection Of Legal Systems Of China's Ocean Renewable Energy

This paper is about an interdisciplinary research which include oceanography and jurisprudence.The vast ocean have provided humans with abundant resources and beautiful scenes.Its role in global ecosystem is particularily undiminished.21 century is an ocean century,the level of exploitation of ocean resources is a key element directly related to the international status of China in the future.Although Chinese government are paying more attention to ocean today and the scientific research is also developing now,the research about policy and law for the purpose of ocean energy development is still lag behind.These can be attributed to the lack of general sense for a long time. Either the proposal of ocean development policy or the "ruling the country by law" policy has been put forward only a two or three decades ago,not to mention the legal practise.This is one reason why I do this research.To speak in detail,the reason I choose to research on ocean energy is because the use of traditional energy sources have brought more and more environmental problems. And the traditional energy sources can not meet the demand of economic development today.The shift to renewable energy is an inreversable trend.Although the technology concerning ocean energy development is not mature yet,some western countries have already began researching for future large scale utilization.In order to take an advantageous opportunity,the immature of technology or the lack of funding should not be reasons impede development.As I have mentioned before,there is little achievements of ocean energy development from the perspective of legislation.The study I do in this paper will related to disciplines like oceanography,environlnental law,international ocean law,economics,public policy and so on.Countries whose experiences will be refered include German,England,Norway,America,India and so on.Most of them are European countries,some third-world country is also included. Specifically,this paper contains the following parts:The first and second part is a general introduction.I will introduce the definition and catagories of ocean renewable energy.I will also summarize their common features and analyze the possibility of exploitation;In the third part I will summarize the issues of Chinese current legislation about ocean renewable energy;The fourth part I will introduce the legislation experiences and lessons of those major oceanic countries legislation experiences.The fifth part is the main part of this paper.Based on the experiences of major oceanic countries,I will conbine it with China's characteristics. And in order to get ideas about the construction of legal system for ocean energy development,I will emphsis on the aspects of legislation trends,principles and specific rules.The last part is about looking into the future,I will present you the spirit which should be hold on in the whole process of ocean energy legislation.