Climate change is prompting an unprecedented questioning of the fundamental bases upon which society is founded. Businesses claim that technology can save the environment, while politicians champion the role of international environmental agreements to secure global action. Economists suggest that we should pay developing countries not to destroy their forests, while environmentalists question whether we can solve ecological problems with the same thinking that created them. As the process of steering society, governance has a critical role to play in coordinating these disparate voices...
Climate change is prompting an unprecedented questioning of the fundamental bases upon which society is founded. Businesses claim that technology c...
'Merchant Adventurers' illuminates wider themes in the history of exploration, trade, science, globalisation, and the making of modern England. In 1553 three ships sailed from London into uncharted waters. They sought a northern passage to Asia and its riches. Although they failed to reach China, their achievements would lay the foundations for England's expansion on a global stage.
'Merchant Adventurers' illuminates wider themes in the history of exploration, trade, science, globalisation, and the making of modern England. In 155...
The discovery in 1972 of a key and human remains on an old well battered Warship at a Portsmouth breakers yard begins the long road to eventually unravel secret accounts of her many wartime exploits when her Commanding Officer John Tremain mounts audacious attacks provoking direct orders from an enraged Adolph Hitler to destroy him and his ship at any cost.
Whilst in Occupied Norway Resistance fighters are desperately attempting to discover what the Germans are constructing inside a local disused Maritime College.
In spite of enemy agents causing loss of life and ships destroyed...
The discovery in 1972 of a key and human remains on an old well battered Warship at a Portsmouth breakers yard begins the long road to eventually unra...
Following a highly successful and exceptionally lucrative salvage operation on an American freighter by the South West Deep Ocean Salvage Company, sole owners Kevin and Karen Masters after so many lean years became rich beyond their wildest dreams. But with wealth came boredom, so just to pass the time they mounted a hunt for HM Submarine Troy documented by the Admiralty as lost with all hands on her return passage from Operation Trojan Submarine in Dorfhaven Germany during WW2. Within weeks their search was intercepted and they were dragged, somewhat reluctantly into a larger Government...
Following a highly successful and exceptionally lucrative salvage operation on an American freighter by the South West Deep Ocean Salvage Company, sol...
Elgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary. This timely Research Agenda explores how to accelerate the creation of sustainable, resilient, safe and prosperous cities. Looking towards the 2030 deadline for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, it presents an ambitious way forward for researchers, identifying opportunities for transformative change in cities and societies. Global in...
Elgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative wa...
