ABSTRACT
Land-based sources of marine pollution (LBSMP) are pervasive throughout the world, posing different highly specific problems, in different, geographic, ecological, social, economic, and scientific situations. This diversity poses impediments to the international undertaking of remedial steps in LBSMP control. LBSMP control issues face problems from the legal conceptual point of view. Developing countries or countries in economic transition are not willing to undertake the perceived high cost of addressing LBSMP, which they fear may restrict their industrial development. The objective of this chapter is to examine, in detail, the specific problems and issues which form obstacles in controlling LBSMP. The mobility of waters and pollutants means LBSMP can easily mix with moving waters. Trans-boundary and cumulative impacts of LBSMP have pushed international communities to work together for common purposes of LBSMP control. The perceived costs of LBSMP control on national economic development undermine efforts to work together for common purposes on this issue.
