GEOSTRATEGY AND GEOTACTICS - RECENT NAVAL PORT DEVELOPMENTS AT GARDENISLAND, WESTERN-AUSTRALIA

In the changing geostrategic conditions of the post-Cold-War world, Au stralia is relocating the bulk of its naval capacity from the east to the west coast of the continent, It is therefore developing a major na val base on the south western fringe of the Perth-Fremantle metropolit an area at a time when naval ports in many parts of the developed worl d are entering a period of decline, This paper considers the factors i nfluencing this strategic move and the tactics adopted by various leve ls of government to optimize the development's economic, social and ec ological impacts. (C) 1997 Elsevier Science Ltd.