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Water Worlds: Human Geographies of the Ocean

Author : Kimberley Peters
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317000153
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Water Worlds: Human Geographies of the Ocean written by Kimberley Peters and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-02-11 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our world is a water world. Seventy percent of our planet consists of ocean. However, geography has traditionally overlooked this vital component of the earth's composition. The word 'geography' directly translates as 'earth writing' and in line with this definition the discipline has preoccupied itself with the study of terrestrial spaces of society and nature. This book challenges human geography's preoccupation with the terrestrial, investigating the terra incognita of the seas and oceans. Linking to new theoretical debates shaping the geographic discipline (such as affect, assemblage, emotion, hybridity and the more-than-human), this volume unlocks new knowledge concerning the human geographies of ocean space. The book casts adrift stable, bounded and fixed conceptions of space and advances geographical understanding based on the world as 'becoming', changing, mobile and processional. This ontology supports the notion that the oceans are not simply fluid in a literal way, but also in a conceptual sense, suggesting that the seas have their own fluid natures - their own capacities and agencies - which are co-fabricated with social and cultural life. This book features twelve chapters, authored by key academics contributing to this growing field of research. The book is divided into three sections, including an Introduction by the editors and a foreword by Prof. Philip E. Steinberg, the leading scholar in the field of maritime geographies. The first section of the book considers the ways in which different watery spaces from the Atlantic Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea have been conceptualized, theorized and ’known’ through metaphors, voyages of discovery and scientific endeavour. The second section examines how oceans are experienced; through various activities including driving on water, kayaking in water and diving under water. The final section explores the relations between human life and the nature of the sea as a material, mobile and more-than-human spa

Water Worlds: Human Geographies of the Ocean

Author : Dr Jon Anderson
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1472403770
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (724 download)

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Download or read book Water Worlds: Human Geographies of the Ocean written by Dr Jon Anderson and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2014-02-28 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our world is a water world. Seventy percent of our planet consists of ocean. However, geography has traditionally overlooked this vital component of the earth's composition. The word 'geography' directly translates as 'earth writing' and in line with this definition the discipline has preoccupied itself with the study of terrestrial spaces of society and nature. This book challenges human geography's preoccupation with the terrestrial, investigating the terra incognita of the seas and oceans. Linking to new theoretical debates shaping the geographic discipline (such as affect, assemblage, emotion, hybridity and the more-than-human), this volume unlocks new knowledge concerning the human geographies of ocean space. The book casts adrift stable, bounded and fixed conceptions of space and advances geographical understanding based on the world as 'becoming', changing, mobile and processional. This ontology supports the notion that the oceans are not simply fluid in a literal way, but also in a conceptual sense, suggesting that the seas have their own fluid natures - their own capacities and agencies - which are co-fabricated with social and cultural life. This book features twelve chapters, authored by key academics contributing to this growing field of research. The book is divided into three sections, including an Introduction by the editors and a foreword by Prof. Philip E. Steinberg, the leading scholar in the field of maritime geographies. The first section of the book considers the ways in which different watery spaces from the Atlantic Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea have been conceptualized, theorized and ‘known’ through metaphors, voyages of discovery and scientific endeavour. The second section examines how oceans are experienced; through various activities including driving on water, kayaking in water and diving under water. The final section explores the relations between human life and the nature of the sea as a material, mobile and more-than-human space, examining the influences of the ocean on the migratory practices of fishermen in Senegal, to the more-than-human geographies of the contemporary scallop industry, the historical journeys of steam ship companies and the pirate radio enterprise. Oceans are fundamental to the workings of the world as we know it. Critical human activities take place at sea, including trade, tourism, migration, scientific exploration and resource exploitation. The water world is therefore significantly entwined with our everyday lives. This book offers a novel and important contribution to an ever-emerging cross-disciplinary subject matter.

Water Worlds: Human Geographies of the Ocean

Author : Kimberley Peters
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317000161
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Water Worlds: Human Geographies of the Ocean written by Kimberley Peters and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-02-11 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our world is a water world. Seventy percent of our planet consists of ocean. However, geography has traditionally overlooked this vital component of the earth's composition. The word 'geography' directly translates as 'earth writing' and in line with this definition the discipline has preoccupied itself with the study of terrestrial spaces of society and nature. This book challenges human geography's preoccupation with the terrestrial, investigating the terra incognita of the seas and oceans. Linking to new theoretical debates shaping the geographic discipline (such as affect, assemblage, emotion, hybridity and the more-than-human), this volume unlocks new knowledge concerning the human geographies of ocean space. The book casts adrift stable, bounded and fixed conceptions of space and advances geographical understanding based on the world as 'becoming', changing, mobile and processional. This ontology supports the notion that the oceans are not simply fluid in a literal way, but also in a conceptual sense, suggesting that the seas have their own fluid natures - their own capacities and agencies - which are co-fabricated with social and cultural life. This book features twelve chapters, authored by key academics contributing to this growing field of research. The book is divided into three sections, including an Introduction by the editors and a foreword by Prof. Philip E. Steinberg, the leading scholar in the field of maritime geographies. The first section of the book considers the ways in which different watery spaces from the Atlantic Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea have been conceptualized, theorized and ’known’ through metaphors, voyages of discovery and scientific endeavour. The second section examines how oceans are experienced; through various activities including driving on water, kayaking in water and diving under water. The final section explores the relations between human life and the nature of the sea as a material, mobile and more-than-human spa

The Ocean, Blue Spaces and Outdoor Learning

Author : Mike Brown
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040023347
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book The Ocean, Blue Spaces and Outdoor Learning written by Mike Brown and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-07-24 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the educational dimension of people’s engagement with the ocean. Across formal, informal, and nonformal learning contexts, it examines how experiences of the ocean and ‘blue spaces’ help us to understand ourselves, others, and our place within the natural environment, and the place of the ocean in our sociocultural and political life. Drawing on creative projects from around the world, the book introduces topics as diverse as ocean sailing, migrants’ experiences of learning to surf, experiencing seascapes through sounds, and the importance of fostering connections with the sea. It provides examples of innovative teaching and learning practices, and the pedagogical possibilities that engagement with the ocean offers to outdoor studies scholars and practitioners in terms of education, and the enhancement of our well-being and the environment. This is fascinating reading for advanced students, researchers, teachers, and educational practitioners with an interest in outdoor studies, experiential and outdoor learning, leisure and recreation studies, environmental studies, or geography.

Handbook on the Geographies of Power

Author : Mat Coleman
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1785365649
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (853 download)

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Download or read book Handbook on the Geographies of Power written by Mat Coleman and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2018-07-27 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The so-called spatial turn in the social sciences means that many researchers have become much more interested in what can be called the spatialities of power, or the ways in which power as a medium for achieving goals is related to where it takes place. Most famous authors on the subject, such as Machiavelli and Hobbes, saw power as entirely equivalent to domination exercised by some over others. Though this meaning is hardly redundant, understandings of power have become more multidimensional and nuanced as a result of the spatial turn. Much recent writing in human geography, for example, has rigorously extended use of the term power beyond its typical understanding as a resource that pools up in some hands and some places to a medium of agency that has different effects depending on how it is deployed across space and how actors cooperate, or not, to give it effect. To address this objective, the book is organized thematically into four sections that cover the main areas in which much of the contemporary work on geographies of power is concentrated: bodies, economy, environment and energy, and war.

The World's Oceans

Author : Rainer F. Buschmann
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 144084352X
Total Pages : 447 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (48 download)

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Download or read book The World's Oceans written by Rainer F. Buschmann and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2018-07-26 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This single-volume resource explores the five major oceans of the world, addressing current issues such as sea rise and climate change and explaining the significance of the oceans from historical, geographic, and cultural perspectives. The World's Oceans: Geography, History, and Environment is a one-stop resource that describes in-depth the Arctic, Atlantic, Indian, Pacific, and Southern Oceans and identifies their importance, today and throughout history. Essays address the subject areas of oceans and seas in world culture, fishing and shipping industries through history, ocean exploration, and climate change and oceans. The book also presents dozens of entries covering a breadth of topics on human culture, the environment, history, and current issues as they relate to the oceans and ocean life. Sample entries provide detailed information on topics such as the Bermuda Triangle, Coral Reefs, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, Ice Melt, Myths and Legends, Piracy, and Whaling. Contributions to the work come from top researchers in the fields of history and maritime studies, including Paul D'Arcy, John Gillis, Tom Hoogervorst, Michael North, and Lincoln Paine. The volume highlights the numerous ways in which Earth's oceans have influenced culture and society, from the earliest seafaring civilizations to the future of the planet.

The Routledge Handbook of Ocean Space

Author : Kimberley A. Peters
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781032259208
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (592 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of Ocean Space written by Kimberley A. Peters and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Invisible as the seas and oceans may be for so many of us, life as we know it is almost always connected to, and constituted by, activities and occurrences that take place in, on and under our oceans. The Routledge Handbook of Ocean Space provides a first port of call for scholars engaging in the 'oceanic turn' in the social sciences, offering a comprehensive summary of existing trends in making sense of our water worlds, alongside new, agenda-setting insights into the relationships between society and the 'seas around us'. Accordingly, this ambitious text not only attends to a growing interest in our oceans, past and present, it is also situated in a broader 'spatial turn' across the social sciences that seeks to account for how space and place are imbricated in socio-cultural and political life Through 6 clearly structured and wide-ranging sections, the Routledge Handbook of Ocean Space examines and interrogates how the oceans are environmental, historical, social, cultural, political, legal and economic spaces, and also zones where national and international security comes into question. With a foreword and introduction authored by some of the leading scholars researching and writing about ocean spaces, and 32 carefully crafted chapters from established as well exciting early career academics, this book provides both an accessible guide to the subject, and a cutting-edge collection of the most critical ideas and questions shaping the social sciences today. This handbook brings together the key debates defining the 'field' in one volume, appealing to wide, cross-disciplinary social science and humanities audience. Moreover, drawing on a range of international examples, from a global collective of authors, this book promises to be the benchmark publication for those interested in ocean spaces, past and present. Indeed, as the seas and oceans continue to capture world-wide attention, and the social sciences continue their 'turn' towards water worlds the Routledge Handbook of Ocean Space will provide an invaluable resource that reveals how our world, is a water world"--

Deep Water

Author : James Bradley
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0063390167
Total Pages : 473 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (633 download)

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Download or read book Deep Water written by James Bradley and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2024-07-02 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Deep Water is a major achievement....Bradley's skills both as novelist and essayist converge here to create this wise, compassionate and urgent book, characterized throughout by a clarity of prose and a bracing moral gaze that searches water, self and reader." —ROBERT MACFARLANE, bestselling author of Underland In this thrilling work—a blend of history, science, nature writing, and environmentalism—acclaimed writer James Bradley plunges into the unknown to explore the deepest recesses of the natural world. Seventy-one percent of the earth’s surface is ocean. These waters created, shaped, and continue to sustain not just human life, but all life on Planet Earth, and perhaps beyond it. They serve as the stage for our cultural history—driving human development from evolution through exploration, colonialism, and the modern era of global leisure and trade. They are also the harbingers of the future—much of life on Earth cannot survive if sea levels are too low or too high, temperatures too cold or too warm. Our oceans are vast spaces of immense wonder and beauty, and our relationship to them is innate and awe inspired. Deep Water is both a lyrically written personal meditation and an intriguing wide-ranging reported epic that reckons with our complex connection to the seas. It is a story shaped by tidal movements and deep currents, lit by the insights of philosophers, scientists, artists and other great minds. Bradley takes readers from the atomic creation of the oceans, to the wonders within, such as fish migrations guided by electromagnetic sensing. He describes the impacts of human population shifts by boat and speaks directly and uncompromisingly to the environmental catastrophe that is already impacting our lives. It is also a celebration of the ocean’s glories and the extraordinary efforts of the scientists and researchers who are unlocking its secrets. These myriad strands are woven together into a tapestry of life that captures not only our relationship with the planet, but our past, and perhaps most importantly, what lies ahead for us. A brilliant blend of Robert MacFarlane’s Underland, Susan Casey’s The Underworld, and Simon Winchester’s Pacific and The Atlantic, Deep Water taps into the essence of our planet and who we are.

The Physical Geography of the Sea

Author : Matthew Fontaine Maury
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book The Physical Geography of the Sea written by Matthew Fontaine Maury and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Great Ocean

Author : David Igler
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199914958
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)

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Download or read book The Great Ocean written by David Igler and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-05-09 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking and lyrically written work that explores the world of the Pacific Ocean.

The Oceans Atlas

Author : DK
Publisher : Dorling Kindersley Ltd
ISBN 13 : 0241654386
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (416 download)

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Download or read book The Oceans Atlas written by DK and published by Dorling Kindersley Ltd. This book was released on 2023-09-07 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Delve beneath the world's oceans to discover their physical features, wildlife, and threats to their future. How do waves form? Where is the deepest part of the ocean? What is a black smoker? What would the ocean floor look like without water? What lives in a coral reef? If you find yourself seeking the answers to these questions, then this may be the book for you! Introducing The Oceans Atlas - a beautifully illustrated guide to Earth's oceans for children aged 9-12. Explore key features of the oceans from seafloor to surf, including tides and trenches, currents and coastline, volcanoes and vents. Discover the variety of marine life from the biggest sharks and whales to the tiniest invertebrates and polyps. Find out the human impact on our seas and how we can create a healthier and cleaner future. Dive straight into this ocean book for kids, offering: - An illustrated guide to the innermost depths of our oceans that shows details not visible in photographs. - A variety of maps from seafloor topography and cross-sections to shipping routes and ocean resources. - Original and retro-feel illustration style combined with modern fonts which creates a different approach compared to photographic or CGI-based books. From coral reefs to hazardous seas, The Oceans Atlas is an engaging, fact-packed for children aged 9-12, especially those interested in natural science, geography, or ecology. So whether you're a budding young geographer, or a teacher looking for an engaging resource to use in your classroom, this oceans encyclopedia is full of fascinating facts to impress young readers time and time again. At DK, we believe in the power of discovery. So why stop there? If you like The Oceans Atlas, then why not complete the collection? Take a peek inside the beautiful and absorbing world of birds with The Bird Atlas, explore the complex animal kingdom with The Animal Atlas, reveal the inner workings of the human body with The Body Atlas and take a trip around the globe with The Earth Atlas.

The Geography of the Ocean

Author : Anne-Flore Laloë
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317030559
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book The Geography of the Ocean written by Anne-Flore Laloë and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-14 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the fact that the vast majority of the earth’s surface is made up of oceans, there has been surprisingly little work by geographers which critically examines the ocean-space and our knowledge and perceptions of it. This book employs a broad conceptual and methodological framework to analyse specific events that have contributed to the production of geographical knowledge about the ocean. These include, but are not limited to, Christopher Columbus’ first transatlantic journey, the mapping of nonexistent islands, the establishment of transoceanic trade routes, the discovery of largescale water movements, the HMS Challenger expedition, the search for the elusive Terra Australis Incognita, the formulation of the theory of continental drift and the mapping of the seabed. Using a combination of original, empirical (archival, material and cartographic), and theoretical sources, this book uniquely brings together fascinating narratives throughout history to produce a representation and mapping of geographical oceanic knowledge. It questions how we know what we know about the oceans and how this knowledge is represented and mapped. The book then uses this representation and mapping as a way to coherently trace the evolution of oceanic spatial awareness. In recent years, particularly in historical geography, discovering and knowing the ocean-space has been a completely separate enterprise from discovering and colonising the lands beyond it. There has been such focus on studying colonised lands, yet the oceans between them have been neglected. This book gives the geographical ocean a voice to be acknowledged as a space where history, geography and indeed historical geography took place.

Oceanic Histories

Author : David Armitage
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108423183
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Oceanic Histories written by David Armitage and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Freshly presents world history through its oceans and seas in uniquely wide-ranging, original chapters by leading experts in their fields.

The Social Construction of the Ocean

Author : Philip E. Steinberg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521010573
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book The Social Construction of the Ocean written by Philip E. Steinberg and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-10-25 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 2001 book discusses the changing uses, regulations and representation of the sea from 1450 to now.

Oceans Rising

Author : Daniela Zyman
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 3956796098
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (567 download)

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Download or read book Oceans Rising written by Daniela Zyman and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2022-02-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forty-one thoughtful and generous contributions by artists, scholars, scientists, and ocean activists in response to the rapidly changing oceans. The ocean is rising and with it sea level, water temperature, acidity, algal blooms, and storm surges. Also on the rise are the metrics of accelerated human activity. How are we to fathom the political, aesthetic, and epistemological rise of the oceans from centuries-long invisibilization and forgetting? What ideas and memories do the oceans hold in their depth and reanimate, when the earth’s ecosystems suffer? Asking different questions and using multiple registers of sensing expand the possibilities to engage with the oceanic at this precarious moment and rethink its relations to the terrestrial. Oceans Rising is a companion reader to “Territorial Agency: Oceans in Transformation,” an independent oceanic research initiative commissioned by TBA21–Academy and operating out of Ocean Space in Venice. It offers forty-one thoughtful contributions by artists, scholars, scientists, and ocean activists in response to the rapidly changing oceans. Writing from places of conflict and concern, the contributions reveal the magnitude and urgency of ecological devastation, but more important, they provide alternative narratives that strengthen our knowledge communities and contribute to worldmaking practices from an oceanic perspective.

Mapping Oceans

Author : Alex Brinded
Publisher : Maps and Mapping
ISBN 13 : 9781786373267
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (732 download)

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Download or read book Mapping Oceans written by Alex Brinded and published by Maps and Mapping. This book was released on 2018-03-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Find your way around our world and take a journey through mapping you wouldn't expect with this interesting look at maps and mapping. Not just for directions maps are used to track and study weather people money and more. In this fascinating series human and physical geography combines with technology and science to look at how we map the world around us and our lives within it. Over 70 of the Earth's surface is water. This title takes a look at how we map and understand oceanic geography around the world.|Find your way around our world and take a journey through mapping you wouldn't expect with this interesting look at maps and mapping. Not just for directions maps are used to track and study weather people money and more. In this fascinating series human and physical geography combines with technology and science to look at how we map the world around us and our lives within it. Over 70 of the Earth's surface is water. This title takes a look at how we map and understand oceanic geography around the world.

Maritime Spatial Planning

Author : Jacek Zaucha
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319986961
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (199 download)

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Download or read book Maritime Spatial Planning written by Jacek Zaucha and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license Maritime or marine spatial planning has gained increasing prominence as an integrated, common-sense approach to promoting sustainable maritime development. A growing number of countries are engaged in preparing and implementing maritime spatial plans: however, questions are emerging from the growing body of MSP experience. How can maritime spatial planning deal with a complex and dynamic environment such as the sea? How can MSP be embedded in multiple levels of governance across regional and national borders – and how far does the environment benefit from this new approach? This open access book is the first comprehensive overview of maritime spatial planning. Situated at the intersection between theory and practice, the volume draws together several strands of interdisciplinary research, reflecting on the history of MSP as well as examining current practice and looking towards the future. The authors and contributors examine MSP from disciplines as diverse as geography, urban planning, political science, natural science, sociology and education; reflecting the growing critical engagement with MSP in many academic fields. This innovative and pioneering volume will be of interest and value to students and scholars of maritime spatial planning, as well as planners and practitioners. Jacek Zaucha is Professor of Economics at Gdánsk University, Poland. He is long experienced in maritime spatial planning, and is currently leading the team preparing the first plan for Polish waters. Kira Gee is Research Associate at the Centre for Materials and Coastal Research (Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht), Germany. She has been involved in MSP research and practice for over 20 years, and has participated in numerous national and transnational European MSP projects.