Blue Economy

The papers included in this book address critical challenges to the blue economy in view of the growth in exploration and utilization of natural resources, transport connectivity, effects of climate change, sustainable fisheries management, food security, and social and economic issues of human well-being in coastal areas. In this context, this publication supplements the existing literature by summoning political, economic, environmental, and social factors that influence various dimensions of the sustainable development of blue economy, as well as translating the findings into workable approaches and policies for the benefit of the economic actors, people, and the environment.

Maritime Transport and Regional Sustainability is a critical examination on how the maritime transport sector helps regions to achieve their sustainability goals, especially focusing on the challenges posed by climate change. This book analyzes maritime transport from multiple perspectives, establishing a strong theoretical framework drawn on evidence from both the developed and emerging economies across the globe. It identifies commonalities that contribute to a coherent transport region relationship, including how maritime operations, planning, and management impact regional governance. Tracing the vital threads linking transport to its regional surroundings, Maritime Transport and Regional Sustainability analyses the major issues and challenges that maritime transport researchers, planners, and policymakers are facing.

Une synthèse de l'ensemble de disciplines du droit et de la mer dans une approche transversale qui correspond à la pluridisciplinarité du monde océanique tout à la fois milieu physique, producteur de ressources et vecteur du commerce. L'océan étant un espace à polyrégimes et à pluriactivités, les auteurs répondent à un ensemble de questions issues de cette nature juridique hybride. Riche en références bibliographiques et en jurisprudence, cette nouvelle édition refondue assure un accès direct à l'information et permet une compréhension rapide de phénomènes complexes.Les développements sont destinés aux praticiens du monde de la mer tant navigants qu'à terre dans les entreprises maritimes et les administrations de terrain. Il pourra aider les professions liées à l'urbanisme, les avocats et les magistrats comme les élus du littoral confrontés à des situations juridiques délicates. Il est également destiné aux étudiants de mastère 1 et 2, et aux doctorants des disciplines de la mer.

The “blue growth” has many technological challenges as, for example, the exploitation of new energies at sea, deeper drilling and farther from the coast, ships increasingly impressive, computerized and automated. If there are opportunities, there are also new risks concerning safety and security and the protection of the marine environment. The maritime industry, ships, ports, platforms, is supposed to bring the minimum impact to the environment and also must be protected from malicious acts and violent attacks. The interventions of public and private actors are quite complementary. Can the High Reliability Organisations (HRO) concept be deployed in order to better understand the safety and security of ships, platforms and port facilities?
Des nouvelles énergies à exploiter en mer, des forages toujours plus loin des côtes et plus profonds, des navires de plus en plus imposants, informatisés et automatisés, sont autant de défis technologiques de la « croissance bleue ». S’il y a là des opportunités, ce sont aussi de nouveaux risques, concernant la sûreté et la sécurité, la protection de l’environnement marin. La filière maritime, navires, ports, plates-formes, doit avoir le minimum d’impact sur l’environnement, doit être protégée des actes malveillants et attaques violentes. Les interventions des acteurs publics et privés sont tout à fait complémentaires. Le concept d’Organisation à Haute Fiabilité (High Reliability Organisations - HRO) peut-il être déployé afin de mieux appréhender la sécurité et la sûreté des navires, plates-formes et installations portuaires ?

This book illustrates and explains the consequences of neoliberal reform on rural economies. Based on an ethnographic case study of coastal fisheries in Iceland, it poses the following questions: How are rural fishers navigating liberal capitalism? And how are new markets, property-rights and digital technologies transforming rural economies? By drawing on an extensive body of literature on economic sociology and science and technology studies, the book offers a novel understanding of the role of market-based reform for rural development.

Haciendo honor al tratamiento holístico de todas las políticas relacionadas con el mar que persigue la Política Marítima Integrada de la UE, esta obra recoge la reflexión conjunta de especialistas en Derecho del trabajo, y Derecho internacional público y privado sobre sus actores, ámbitos y relaciones con otras políticas, abarcando temáticas como las migraciones y los derechos laborales de las gentes de mar, la seguridad marítima, la pesca sostenible y otras formas de explotación de los recursos marinos como la biotecnología azul, la contención de la contaminación, empresas y derechos humanos, la lucha contra la delincuencia organizada y la educación en el marco de la economía azul.

Over the last decade the concept of clustering has become a central idea for analyzing the competitiveness of nations, industries and firms. This book shows how the cluster concept can be usefully applied to the study of maritime activities.  Such activities, including shipping, shipbuilding and port and maritime services, are clearly geographically concentrated in a number of maritime clusters. However, as the author shows, these are having to compete with other uses of the coasts and oceans including capture fisheries, marine aquaculture, offshore energy and tourism.  Sound governance and planning is therefore required to manage the competing claims for ocean space. The book shows how competing industries and other stakeholders can cooperate and benefit from an integrated approach to the development of maritime clusters.  The contribution of approaches such as integrated coastal zone management and innovations such as ocean business councils, as well as coordinated networks of maritime clusters are reviewed. Case studies are included from around the world, including detailed examples of the development of the Nelson Mandela Bay Maritime Cluster in South Africa and from Poland in the Baltic Sea.

Das Werk ist eine weitreichende wie kritische Darstellung der internationalen Schifffahrt und beschreibt deren Geschäftszweige, Schiffstypen Reedereien, Werften und Häfen. Einen derartigen Versuch einer umfassenden Abhandlung hat es bisher weder im deutschen noch internationalen Schrifttum gegeben. Wegen der Internationalität des Sujets wird das Werk weltweites Interesse in der allgemeinen Wirtschaft, der Schifffahrt, bei Seeleuten, Hafenbeschäftigten, Schiffbauern, Reedereien, Behörden und interessierten Laien finden.