Definition
Overall, maritime safety encompasses the protection of ports, ships, and their communities against unintentional dangers and harms (e.g., storm at sea), whereas maritime security encompasses the protection of ports, ships, and their communities against deliberate dangers and harms (e.g., piracy). The two can be complementary or conflicting.
Introduction
The safety versus security debate is persistent in any professional domain, whether that is in agriculture, policing, education, or IT (Line et al. 2006), and thus in the maritime industry as well. Overall, “[t]he inability of the system to affect its environment in an undesirable way is usually called safety; the inability of the environment to affect the system in an undesirable way is usually called security” (ibid. 1). However, depending on the environments and systems themselves, as well as the damaging effects they can both have on each other, there can be numerous definitions of safety and security. The maritime...
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Eski, Y. (2019). Maritime Security: Problems of Security Versus Safety Practices. In: Shapiro, L., Maras, MH. (eds) Encyclopedia of Security and Emergency Management. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69891-5_90-3
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