Title: “Understanding the legal development and challenges regarding underwater noise pollution in Spain and Norway”
Título: “Comprendiendo el desarrollo jurídico y retos de la contaminación acústica subacuática en España y Noruega”
Author: Esteban Morelle Hungría, PhD in Law, environmental law and sustainability. Collaborator researcher in Public Law at University of Balearic Islands, esteban.morelle@uib.es ORCID: 0000-0001-5149-1792
Autor: Esteban Morelle Hungría, Doctor en Derecho, Derecho ambiental y sostenibilidad. Investigador colaborador en Derecho público en la Universitat de les Illes Balears, esteban.morelle@uib.es ORCID: 0000-0001-5149-1792
Fecha de recepción: 24/08/2020
Fecha de aceptación: 02/10/2020
Doi: https://doi.org/10.56398/ajacieda.00162
Abstract: Noise is one of most important pollution that affects to human health, but in aquatic ecosystem its impact is higher than terrestrial. Noise is included in environmental acts only by sectorial mechanism but, in 2010, this vision changed. Ecosystem approach was incorporated in Spanish acts with first legal instrument for protecting from holistic perspective internal seas. From the European Union built news regulations about marine policies from ecosystem approach, with two essentials acts, Maritime Spatial Planning and Marine Strategies. In this paper, we analyse these mechanisms in Spain and Norway; we make a descriptive research about the legal