Maritime Infrastructure
Maritime Infrastructure

Author: Aaron R. Hickmann

Publisher:

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 189

ISBN-13: 9781624177057

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The Maritime Transportation System (MTS) is integral to the efficient movement of the nation's freight. The MTS includes navigable waterways, ports, and port connectors, such as roads and railways that provide access to the interstate highway system and the national rail network. According to DOT, approximately 90 percent of America's overseas imports and exports by tonnage move by ship. Consequently, the continued maintenance and improvement of the MTS is essential to sustaining the nation's competitive position in the global economy. This book examines the opportunities that exist to improve the effectiveness of federal efforts to support the marine transportation system.

Understanding Maritime Security
Understanding Maritime Security

Author: Christian Bueger

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2024

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 0197767141

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In Understanding Maritime Security, Christian Bueger and Timothy Edmunds offer a concise introduction to the history and evolution of security at sea. Whether it is pirates, smugglers, or international disputes in the South China Sea, the authors show how to make sense of them by employing the core analytical frameworks that professionals use to understand maritime order. They also discuss future trends, emerging technologies, climate change, and the tectonic geopolitical shifts that are restructuring world order. It offers maritime security analysts, professionals, and students a comprehensive overview of maritime security and helps them connect the dots about its future.

Eco-design of Marine Infrastructures
Eco-design of Marine Infrastructures

Author: Sylvain Pioch

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2021-10-26

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 1786307111

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This book offers an insight into how to create aesthetically pleasing, environmentally integrated, multi-functional developments in the ocean or on the coastline. Eco-design of Marine Infrastructures provides practical and realistic solutions for delivering projects that strive to minimize negative environmental impacts. Using case studies and examples, this book presents a toolkit of options, allowing decision makers and planners to see what is possible and to make informed choices about the risks and benefits of eco-design. It is intended for researchers, engineers, students and decision makers, or anyone who is curious to see how nature can be integrated into development.