The Blue Book: Smart sustainable coastal cities and blue growth strategies for Marine and Maritime environments - Stamatina Rassia, Nick Baker [2024, PDF]

The Blue Book: Smart sustainable coastal cities and blue growth strategies for Marine and Maritime environments

Year: 2024
Language: English
Author: Stamatina Rassia, Nick Baker
Genre: Other
Publisher: Springer
Edition: 1st (March, 2024)
ISBN: 9783031488313
Format: PDF
Quality: eBook
Pages count: 205
Description: This volume offers a wealth of results written by experts from interdisciplinary fields, contributing on a diversity of topics targeting marine and maritime environmental sustainability in coastal and ocean-related areas. The reader will benefit from the diversity and breadth of topical coverage as well as concepts conveyed from a variety researchers. The book serves as an open knowledge platform combining naval architecture and marine engineering, ecology, biomedical informatics, public health, architecture engineering and building physics, nanotechnology as well as advanced technologies, innovation and related fields.
The broad range of topics cover ecology, shipping, and health related issues. Specifically, the book presents chapters on the following:
· Shipping and ecology
· Topics of ocean wildlife and mega-fauna protection
· Big Data and sustainable applications for healthy and safe coastal cities
· Smart sustainable humanitarian assistance methods using large vessels
· Historical analysis of the case of disease outbreaks onboard ships
· Monitoring, simulating and decision making while developing housing at sea, such as in cruise-ships
· and etc.
The book is expected to engage researchers in multidisciplinary areas as well as students and interested readers.