Safety of Marine Transport

Safety of Marine Transport
Author: Adam Weintrit
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2015-06-03
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1315672618

Providing high-quality, scholarly research, addressing development, application and implications, in the field of maritime education, maritime safety management, maritime policy sciences, maritime industries, marine environment and energy technology. Contents include electronics, astronomy, mathematics, cartography, command and control, psycho

Maritime Information: a guide to libraries and sources of information in the United Kingdom, 2004 Fourth Edition

Maritime Information: a guide to libraries and sources of information in the United Kingdom, 2004 Fourth Edition
Author: Mike Macdonald
Publisher: Ships in Focus Publications
Total Pages: 184
Release: 2004-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN:

The Maritime Information Guide provides a list of UK libraries, record offices, archives, museums, institutions, associations and other bodies that have, or can make available, information on maritime matters. Titles are listed in alphabetical order by the name by which users are most likely to look up. This is the fourth volume, produced in 2004, following the previous editions in 1973, 1983, and 1993.

The Challenge of Global Commons and Flows for US Power

The Challenge of Global Commons and Flows for US Power
Author: Mika Aaltola
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 182
Release: 2016-04-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 131703922X

Global commons are domains that fall outside the direct jurisdiction of sovereign states - the high seas, air, space, and most recently man-made cyberspace - and thus should be usable by anyone. These domains, even if outside the direct responsibility and governance of sovereign entities, are of crucial interest for the contemporary world order. This book elaborates a practice-based approach to the global commons and flows to examine critically the evolving geopolitical strategy and vision of United States. The study starts with the observation that the nature of US power is evolving increasingly towards the recognition that command over the flows of global interdependence is a central dimension of national power. The study then highlights the emerging security and governance of these flows. In this context, the flows and the underlying global critical infrastructure are emerging as objects of high-level strategic importance. The book pays special attention to one of the least recognized but perhaps most fundamental challenges related to the global commons, namely the conceptual and practical challenge of inter-domain relationships-between maritime, air, space, and cyber-flows that bring about not only opportunities but also new vulnerabilities. These complexities cannot be understood through technological means alone but rather the issues need to be clarified by bringing in the human domain of security.