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Gulf of Guinea maritime criminality analysis with Geographic Information Systems

dc.contributor.authorPacheco, Luís Miguel Cardoso Pércio Bessa
dc.date.accessioned2017-07-18T15:10:42Z
dc.date.available2017-07-18T15:10:42Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.description.abstractOver the past few years, the Gulf of Guinea has been increasing its world share of oil production. At the same time, armed robbery and piracy attacks have become a permanent threat to the maritime agents in the region. Oil theft, crew kidnapping for ransom and robbery of crew and ship valuables are the most common outcomes of successful attacks. To better understand the phenomena, a political, economic, social and environmental analysis of the region was perf or med, and a geographic information system was developed to provide a deeper analysis and understanding of the correlation between geographical and scope factors of this criminal activity, considering the period from January 2012 to May 2015. The system integrates the land and maritime boundaries, population, religion, oil/gas platforms, oil/gas fields, reported attacks on ships and spatial analysis results. Several factors are pointed out as major contributors to today’s maritime criminality in the Gulf of Guinea. The geographic information system analytical outputs provide a view of the geographical concentration, trends and perceive a slow decreas ing of this threat until 2014 and a slowgrowing tendency in 2015.pt_PT
dc.description.versionN/Apt_PT
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.26/18648
dc.language.isoengpt_PT
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/pt_PT
dc.subjectGulf of Guinea;maritime piracy;maritime assaults;shipping;oilpt_PT
dc.titleGulf of Guinea maritime criminality analysis with Geographic Information Systemspt_PT
dc.typejournal article
dspace.entity.typePublication
oaire.citation.conferencePlaceChania, Grécia
oaire.citation.title6th NATO Maritime Interdiction Operational Training Centre (NMIOTC) conference, 2 de junho
rcaap.rightsopenAccesspt_PT
rcaap.typearticlept_PT

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