![]() ![]() ![]() Harbour users seek to access a common pool of natural resources for different ends so there are often conflicts of interest. Harbours are critically important social and environmental places imbued with cultural meanings and complex values that attract diverse users and generate conflict. Harbours, the lands and water around constructed ports, are a scarce resource and the focus of a variety of uses and users of land and sea. ![]() This process provided an opportunity for global researchers to share the ways harbour conflicts are mitigated and the kinds of adaptations that are possible. The paper addresses an omission of “conflict” in most of the research literature about harbours, and ports and scopes a research agenda that includes integration, risk appreciation and other approaches to these increasingly contentious maritime environments. After a detailed discussion experts from Sydney, Qingdao, Vigo, Auckland, Jakarta, Crete and Plymouth synthesised and shared their harbour’s characteristics, user conflicts and how such conflicts have been researched and managed. In this paper, seven international, multi-disciplinary groups provide their expert synthesis of individual harbours. Reviewing the multiple uses associated with harbours provides important insights into maritime communities and the management of conflict. Harbours are a focus of intensive and diverse activities and thus have a high potential to become centres of conflict between users. ![]()
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