Using comparisons from the rail and aviation industries, the book develops guiding principles for a common regulatory policy for liner shipping while proposing a framework for shipping managers to guide strategy formulation and implementation in this new business environment. This book assumes that medicine may benefit and learn from approaches to safety in other areas and will be a core resource for this topic. The role of new technologies, both as hazards and in improving safety, is an essential new challenge which the book addresses. This valuable work, to be published in 2000 in 3 volumes, will provide a comprehensive review of the environmental condition of the seas of the world, sea by sea and region by region. It will focus on all aspects of man's interactions with the water bodies and with their biological and physical systems.
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Every article in the Encyclopedia has been commissioned and written by an internationally recognised expert and provides a concise overview of a particular aspect of the field. The political environment in which the global economy has to function is finally recovering from the bewilderment which followed the collapse of the bipolar system which had, in turn, come into being after World War Two. The aim of this book is to provide a discussion of the new world order as manifested by some of the changes which dominate the arena, specifically the dichotomy of concurrent attempts at globalization and regionalization of international trade and financial issues. The editor's introductory chapter gives a valuable overview of the work, discussing the importance of all these aspects of propositional attitude research and stressing their compatibility and interdependence. The field of production automation has been changing throughout the last decade.