1st Edition

Maritime Clusters and the Ocean Economy An Integrated Approach to Managing Coastal and Marine Space

By Peter B. Myles Copyright 2017
292 Pages 15 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

292 Pages 15 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

292 Pages 15 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Over the last decade the concept of clustering has become a central idea for analyzing the competitiveness of nations, industries and firms. This book shows how the cluster concept can be usefully applied to the study of maritime activities.  Such activities, including shipping, shipbuilding and port and maritime services, are clearly geographically concentrated in a number of... Read more

1. Collaborative Economic Development 

2. The Growing Multi-Use Ocean  

3. Management Strategies within a MSP Framework  

4. Managing Conflicts of Interest 

5. Marine and Coastal Aquaculture 

6. Marine Renewable Energy in the Context of Sustainable Oceans 

7. Integrated Coastal Zone Management 

8. Small Island Developing States (SIDS) 

9. Ocean Governance and the Blue Economy 

10. The Ocean Business Community 

11. Organized Ocean Business 

12. Tourism in Coastal Areas 

13. Maritime Clusters Cooperating to Compete 

14. Constructing a Local Maritime Cluster 

15. Maritime Cluster Networks 

16. Clusters and Stewardship

Biography

Peter B. Myles is an International Tourism Consultant, and Owner and Founder of Tournet Africa, based in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. He was responsible for developing the first module on coastal and marine tourism in Africa included in the postgraduate BCom (Tourism) Honours program offered at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, South Africa. He is currently Chairman of the Nelson Mandela Bay Maritime Cluster.