Caught in the Currents: Pollution,Risk, and Environmental Change in Marine Space |
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| Authors: | Kirstin Dow |
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| Abstract: | Human interactions with the marine environment and pollution hold broad lessons for understanding environmental change. Expanding geographical inquiry beyond its traditional, land-based foci and delving deeper into marine environment and risk issues offers fruitful avenues by which to elaborate and refine our understanding of nature-society relationships. I present a case study of marine petroleum transportation risks in the Straits of Malacca to illustrate the complex history of political and economic processes across a range of scales and shaping the risks in the Straits. The inescapable tension between generalizing global social and environmental processes and recognizing the array of local differences drives ongoing policy debates in the Straits, as it does increasingly for many global environmental problems. |
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| Keywords: | Straits of Malacca ocean environment Marinepollution petroleum transportation risk management |
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