Geostrategy and geotactics: Recent naval port developments at Garden Island, Western Australia

Roy Jones

Marine Policy, 1997, vol. 21, issue 4, 363-376

Abstract: In the changing geostrategic conditions of the post-Cold-War world, Australia is relocating the bulk of its naval capacity from the east to the west coast of the continent. It is therefore developing a major naval base on the south western fringe of the Perth-Fremantle metropolitan area at a time when naval ports in many parts of the developed world are entering a period of decline. This paper considers the factors influencing this strategic move and the tactics adopted by various levels of government to optimize the development's economic, social and ecological impacts.

Keywords: Australia; naval; ports; environmental; impacts; socio-economic; impacts; Garden; Island (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1997
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