Sustainability in the Maritime Domain: Towards Ocean Governance and Beyond

This volume explores options for a sustainable maritime domain, including maritime transportation, education, training, traffic and advisory systems, security, small-scale fisheries, and greening the blue economy. It aims to provide the building blocks for a framework for good ocean governance and presents a trans-disciplinary analysis of integral sustainable maritime transportation solutions. The book is of interest to researchers across many disciplines and explores frameworks for sustainable ocean governance being developed under the UN's Agenda for Sustainable Development.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 525 pages
Publication date: 31 May 2022
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland AG

This comprehensive volume delves into diverse strategies for a sustainable maritime realm, encompassing maritime transportation, such as Maritime Spatial Planning (MSP), maritime education and training, maritime traffic and advisory systems, maritime security, and more. Other activities within the maritime domain explored in this book include small-scale fisheries and sustainable fisheries, as well as the greening of the blue economy. The primary objective of this book is to furnish the essential building blocks for a framework of effective ocean governance, which can serve as a guiding framework for the next decade and potentially far beyond the 2030 milestone set by the United Nations Agenda for Sustainable Development. In essence, this book brings together the pressing challenges of our contemporary world and sustainable solutions that are currently in the process of development, with the expectation that they will materialize in the near future. Furthermore, the book offers a transdisciplinary analysis of integral sustainable maritime transportation solutions and critical issues pertinent to good ocean governance, highlighting ongoing efforts to establish and support governance systems that facilitate industry requirements, meet the needs of coastal states and indigenous peoples, as well as researchers, spatial planners, and other sectors reliant on the oceans. This book will appeal to scholars across various disciplines, particularly those engaged in interdisciplinary research and developments in the maritime transport sector and the broader maritime domain. To achieve this, the book covers a wide range of areas, including natural and social sciences, geographical studies, spatial planning, maritime security, and gender studies, as they relate to transportation and the wider maritime sector. Additionally, the book explores frameworks for sustainable development, ocean conservation, and blue economy initiatives, providing valuable insights into the future of our oceans and the global community.

Weight: 825g
Dimension: 235 x 155 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9783030693275
Edition number: 1st ed. 2021