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The Environment, COST-301 and Coastal State Policy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 October 2009

Aline De Bièvre  and
J. F. Kemp
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Abstract

This paper was presented at a seminar entitled a European Concerted Approach to Vessel Traffic Services for Safe Navigation – EEC Project COST-301, sponsored jointly by the Institute's Netherlands branch and the Royal Institute of Engineers, Delft University of Technology and the Netherlands Directorate General for Shipping and Maritime Affairs held in Delft on 20 January 1986. It was published under the auspices of the European Environmental Bureau, an independent coalition body of leading environmental organizations in all the European Economic Community countries (with a total membership of over 10 million). The paper, of which the following is a condensed version, seeks to comment on the implications for environmental protection of the various COST-301 research programmes, and to assess the contribution which the findings resulting from them may make to future European coastal state policy and international measures.

Aline De Bièvre is with the European Environmental Bureau and John Kemp is Professor Emeritus at the City of London Polytechnic.

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Research Article
Information
The Journal of Navigation , Volume 39 , Issue 3 , September 1986 , pp. 310 - 326
Copyright
Copyright © The Royal Institute of Navigation 1986

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