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Isolation, Insularity and Resilience: A Review of the Geophysical, Socioeconomic, and Environmental Vulnerabilities of Gran Canaria and Lesvos Islands for Policy Interventions to Global Change

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The dynamic nature of small islands being geographically isolated and their perceived connectedness with global networks complicates research attempts to draw general conclusions on whether insularity leads to marginalization or strengthens their resilience for sustainable development.
Toheeb Lekan Jolaosho   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Research on Operational Risk for Northwest Passage Cruise Ships Using POLARIS

open access: yesJournal of Marine Science and Engineering
In the context of global warming, polar tourism is developing rapidly, and the demand for polar cruise travel in the Northwest Passage continues to increase, while sea ice has long been a key factor limiting the development of polar cruise tourism.
Long Ma   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Perspectives on Climate Change in Education for Sustainability: Linking Concepts and Skills for a Practical Ecological Transition

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT ‘Hard’ natural sciences have extensively been used to provide evidence that climate change is happening and climate action is needed. If the contribution of our economic activities to disturbing our climate systems is now largely accepted, the way in which we design and operationalise ‘climate action’—how we transition to more sustainable ...
Sandrine Simon
wiley   +1 more source

Influenza on cruise ships [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Travel Medicine, 2018
Barnaby E Young, Annelies Wilder-Smith
openaire   +2 more sources

"Cruising is Risky Business" [PDF]

open access: yes
As the fastest growing sector within the international tourism industry, having grown at roughly double the rate of international tourism as a whole, the cruise liner business has shown impressive growth in the North American and European markets.
Ana Bartolome   +3 more
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RRS Charles Darwin Cruise CD171, 01 May - 15 Jun 2005. A trans-Atlantic hydrographic section at 36N [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
A new hydrographic section was taken across 36?N in the Atlantic Ocean during May-June 2005 aboard RRS Charles Darwin (CD171). The primary objectives of this work were to measure the meridional fluxes of heat, nutrients and CO2.
McDonagh, E.L.
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EVALUATION MODEL OF MARINE POLLUTION BY WASTEWATER FROM CRUISE SHIPS

open access: yes, 2019
In this paper, all factors that have an impact on marine pollution by sanitary wastewater from cruise ships were explored and analysed. A case study was done in which the movement of cruise ships in the Adriatic Sea was followed.
Račić, Nikola   +5 more
core   +1 more source

National Policy Coherence Counts for Reducing Inequality in Global Climate and Development Agendas

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT International institutions promote policy coherence as crucial to the effective and fair implementation of global sustainability agendas, though the evidence for its benefits is slim. We present here the first systematic cross‐country dataset on the consequences of national government efforts to promote policy coherence for vulnerable groups ...
Katherine Browne   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Quantifying the effects of airflow distortion on anemometer wind speed measurements from merchant ships [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
Anemometers on Voluntary Observing Ships (VOS) are usually located above the bridge in a region where the effects of air flow distortion, created by the presence of the ship, may be large.
Moat, B.I.   +2 more
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MODERN CRUISE SHIPS

open access: yes, 2021
V diplomskem delu so prikazane različne vrste sodobnih ladij za križarjenje velikih dimenzij, ki so bile zgrajene z namenom prevažanja potnikov po določenem voznem redu oziroma v linijski plovbi.
Gacinovic, Marta
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