Antarctica-to-Western Australia liquid freshwater shipments using stauber bags in a paternoster-like transfer system: Inaugurating a southern ocean antidrought action sea-lane

Journal of Coastal Research

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1005-1018

  Cathcart, Richard B ^a   Finkl, Charles W ^b   Badescu, Viorel ^c  

^a Geographos   (United States)

^b FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY POLITEHNICA OF BUCHAREST   (Romania)

Author keywords

Climate change; drought; intercontinental freshwater shipment; macroengineering; maritime sea lane development; Pecero self rolling bag

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; COASTAL DEVELOPMENT; COASTAL ENGINEERING; COASTAL ZONE MANAGEMENT; CONTAINER TERMINAL; CONTAINERIZATION; CONTINENTAL SHELF; DESERT; DRINKING WATER; DROUGHT; FRESHWATER; MELTWATER; POPULATION GROWTH; SEWAGE TREATMENT; SHIPPING; STEPPE; SUSTAINABILITY; WATERFRONT DEVELOPMENT;

AMERY ICE SHELF; ANTARCTICA; AUSTRALIA; EAST ANTARCTICA; PERTH [WESTERN AUSTRALIA]; ROTTNEST ISLAND; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 81855219124     PISSN: 07490208     EISSN: 15515036     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2112/11A-00014.1     Document Type: Article

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