Marine Affairs Dictionary - by Niels West (Hardcover)

About the Book

West provides the first comprehensive Marine Affairs dictionary. It includes management and policy terms; procedures concepts; court cases; laws; international conventions, protocols and agreements that deal with the four subject areas of Marine Affairs. These subject areas include, in addition to coastal management, fisheries, marine policy, and ports and shipping.

Marine Affairs is one of a growing number of interdisciplinary environmental disciplines that include professionals with a wide range of educational backgrounds, encompassing political science, geography, resource economics, planning, sociology, anthropology, and the natural and phsical sciences. As such, this reference dictionary is ideal for students seeking careers in Marine Affairs and a must for professionals already working in the field.

The dictionary includes more than 5,000 entries and covers terms and concepts that have evolved within this emerging field. Included are important court cases and laws pertaining to marine resource management and policy. All international agreements, conventions, and protocols dealing with marine related issues have also been summarized. West provides the reader with a quick reference to marine related terms and should be invaluable for any professional responsible for managing or making policy for fisheries, coastal management, shipping, and marine policy.

Book Synopsis

West provides the first comprehensive Marine Affairs dictionary. It includes management and policy terms; procedures concepts; court cases; laws; international conventions, protocols and agreements that deal with the four subject areas of Marine Affairs. These subject areas include, in addition to coastal management, fisheries, marine policy, and ports and shipping.

Marine Affairs is one of a growing number of interdisciplinary environmental disciplines that include professionals with a wide range of educational backgrounds, encompassing political science, geography, resource economics, planning, sociology, anthropology, and the natural and phsical sciences. As such, this reference dictionary is ideal for students seeking careers in Marine Affairs and a must for professionals already working in the field.

The dictionary includes more than 5,000 entries and covers terms and concepts that have evolved within this emerging field. Included are important court cases and laws pertaining to marine resource management and policy. All international agreements, conventions, and protocols dealing with marine related issues have also been summarized. West provides the reader with a quick reference to marine related terms and should be invaluable for any professional responsible for managing or making policy for fisheries, coastal management, shipping, and marine policy.

Review Quotes

?[I]ncludes a great deal of information not usually found within the covers of a single book.?-Reference Reviews

?Attorneys, economists, resources managers, and coastal planners now have a source to turn to when they need something explained, be it a scientific term, legal concept, case, or international convention....With hundreds of entries on maritime terminology, U.S. statutes, international bodies, and non-governmental organizations such as the Mangrove Action Project and the National Maritime Council, the Marine Affairs Dictionary is destined to become an invaluable reference guide for marine affairs professionals and students. It should never, however, be far out of the reach of anyone working on marine issues.?-The SandBar

"ÝI¨ncludes a great deal of information not usually found within the covers of a single book."-Reference Reviews

"[I]ncludes a great deal of information not usually found within the covers of a single book."-Reference Reviews

"Attorneys, economists, resources managers, and coastal planners now have a source to turn to when they need something explained, be it a scientific term, legal concept, case, or international convention....With hundreds of entries on maritime terminology, U.S. statutes, international bodies, and non-governmental organizations such as the Mangrove Action Project and the National Maritime Council, the Marine Affairs Dictionary is destined to become an invaluable reference guide for marine affairs professionals and students. It should never, however, be far out of the reach of anyone working on marine issues."-The SandBar

About the Author

NIELS WEST is Research Professor and Professor Emeritus of Marine Affairs, University of Rhode Island. He has published extensively on marine affairs topics, including Applied Statistics for Marine Affairs Professionals (Praeger, 1996).