GLOBAL MARITIME PROGRAMMES AND ORGANISATIONS:
An Overview
Stjepan Keckes
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This monograph is an attempt at describing and analysing the various global ocean programmes and their interactions. This book describes the major international (global and some regional) programmes promoted by international, intergovernmental and non-governmental organisations, and provides information on the institutional and legal frameworks of the described programmes. It also examines the interactions between the described programmes and the mechanisms set-up for their co-ordination.

   There is analyses of the structural, organisational and financial problems hindering the development and implementation of the described programmes, including the weaknesses in national institutions, policies and practices. In short, this book focuses on programmes whose primary aim is to improve knowledge about the oceans.