The right whale mandatory ship reporting system: a retrospective

The right whale mandatory ship reporting system: a retrospective

In 1998, the United States sought and received International Maritime Organization-endorsement of two Mandatory Ship Reporting (MSR) systems designed to improve mariner awareness about averting ship collisions with the endangered North Atlantic right whale (Eubalaena glacialis). Vessel collisions are a serious threat to the right whale and the program was among the first formal attempts to redu...

Mandatory reporting of professional incompetence.

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A Bayesian approach for understanding the role of ship speed in whale-ship encounters.

Mandatory or voluntary reductions in ship speed are a common management strategy for reducing deleterious encounters between large ships and large whales. This has produced strong resistance from shipping and marine transportation entities, in part because very few studies have empirically demonstrated whether or to what degree ship speed influences ship-whale encounters. Here we present the re...

The Consequences of Mandatory Corporate Sustainability Reporting

We examine the effect of mandatory sustainability reporting on several measures of socially responsible management practices. Using data for 58 countries, we show that after the adoption of mandatory sustainability reporting laws and regulations, the social responsibility of business leaders increases. We also document that both sustainable development and employee training become a higher prio...

Creating the Right Sort of Ship to Achieve Integrated Care: A Response to Recent Commentaries