Global Maritime Transport and Ballast Water Management (Issues and Solutions)
The rapid growth of global economic trade and the seemingly unlimited human mobility around the world, commencing in the mid-1800s, opened many windows of opportunity for trading goods not only between population centers but also into remote places of the world. In the twenty-first century, trans...
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Định dạng: | Sách |
Ngôn ngữ: | English |
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Springer
2015
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Truy cập trực tuyến: | https://scholar.dlu.edu.vn/thuvienso/handle/DLU123456789/56939 |
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Tóm tắt: | The rapid growth of global economic trade and the seemingly unlimited human
mobility around the world, commencing in the mid-1800s, opened many windows
of opportunity for trading goods not only between population centers but also into
remote places of the world. In the twenty-first century, transportation by trucks,
trains and planes is surpassed by far in volume and distance travelled by the shipping
and boating industries – trans- and inter-oceanically via container ships, bulk carriers,
and tankers and coastally by both cargo vessels and a vast fleet of recreational and
fishing vessels. It thus does not come as a surprise that the issue of unintentional
transmission of organisms (including pathogens) across oceans and continents has
reached a new dimension that is of serious concern to maintain and sustain ecosys
tem integrity and ecosystem services... |
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