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1. Shipping and Ports in the Twenty-first Century

   Edited by David Pinder, Brian Slack

   Series: Routledge Advances in Maritime Research

   Shipping and port systems are vital to societies and lifestyles around the world. In the late twentieth century, however, assumptions concerning the robustness of these systems were severely shaken by economic shocks triggered by oil crises. This volume explores how many of the consequent...

   Published June 28th 2012 by Routledge
2. The Geography of Transport Systems

   By Jean-Paul Rodrigue, Claude Comtois, Brian Slack

   Mobility is fundamental to economic and social activities, including commuting, manufacturing and supplying energy. Understanding how mobility is linked with geography is key, and the main focus of this important book. Concerned with movements, infrastructures, institutions and the...

   Published June 7th 2006 by Routledge