Mary R. Brooks

William A. Black Chair of Commerce
Kenneth C. Rowe Management Building
Dalhousie University
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Halifax NS Canada B3H 1W7
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Dr. Mary R. Brooks is the William A. Black Chair of Commerce at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada. Her research interests focus on transportation and global supply chain management, and she is particularly focused on the relationships between the buyers and sellers of transportation services. She was a Canada–US Fulbright scholar at George Mason University in 2005; during this time she investigated the impact of security regulations on the US’ maritime container trade. Her latest book is North American Freight Transportation: The Road to Security and Prosperity, published by Edward Elgar. In 2010, Dr. Brooks is a Visiting Scholar at the Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies at the University of Sydney where she is undertaking research on Australian coastal shipping and maritime reform. From February 2002 to April 2008, she chaired the Committee on International Trade and Transportation, until recently served on the Committee for Funding Options for Freight Transportation Projects of National Significance, and currently serves on the Publication Board of the Transportation Research Record, of the Transportation Research Board, Washington, D.C. She has been appointed to the Marine Board of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences for three years beginning November 2008. Dr. Brooks was Membership Secretary and Treasurer of the International Association of Maritime Economists from 1994 to 1998 and a Director of the Halifax International Airport Authority from its inception in 1995 to 2004. She continues to serve on the Council of the International Association of Maritime Economists and chairs the Port Performance Research Network, a network of scholars interested in port governance and port performance issues. Dr. Brooks is no stranger to public policy research, having led the research team for the publication, Short Sea Shipping on the East Coast of North America, completed in March 2006; this project provided guidance to potential short sea operators and to governments on the public policy changes required to promote Canada-US short sea activity. In April 2008, she was the invited chair for the International Transport Forum of the OECD’s Roundtable on Port Competition and Hinterland Connections in Paris. Her work in public policy development began in the early 1980s providing advice to the Government of Canada in the area of liner shipping, and was honed during her two years as Vice-President Policy for the Halifax Chamber of Commerce (1996-1998). She has provided advice to the governments of Canada, the United States, and Australia as well as the European Council of Ministers of Transport. Dr. Brooks received her undergraduate degree from McGill University, her MBA from Dalhousie University and her Ph.D. in Maritime Studies from the University of Wales in 1983, and is a Member of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport.

Articles in PortStudies Database

Brooks, M.R. and Pallis, A.A. (2008). Assessing port governance models: Process and performance components. Maritime Policy and Management, 35(4), 411-432. [Download]

Brooks M.R. (2004) The Governance Structure of Ports, Review of Network Economics, 3(2), pp. 168-183.

Papers with PortEconomics members

Brooks, M.R. and Pallis, A.A. (2008). Assessing port governance models: Process and performance components. Maritime Policy and Management, 35(4), 411-432. [Download]

Brooks, M.R. and Pallis A.A., (2007). Linking port performance and post-devolution port governance models. Proceedings of the International Association of Maritime Economists (IAME) Conference, Athens, July 2007. [Download]

Other major publications

Hossain, Kamrul, Hugh M. Kindred, and Mary R. Brooks (2009), The Challenge of Maritime Security against Terrorism: A Dialogue Between the European Union and Canada, in T. Koivurova, T et al. (eds), Understanding and Strengthening EU-Canada Relations in the Law of the Sea and Ocean Governance, Rovaniemi, Lapland: University of Lapland Printing Centre, 351-386.

Kindred, Hugh M. and Mary R. Brooks (2009), Consequences of Securing Merchant Shipping for Contractual Relations in the Carriage of Seaborne Trade, in The Future of Regime-Building in the Law of the Sea: Essays in Tribute to Douglas M. Johnston, Aldo Chircop, Ted L. McDorman and Susan J. Rolston (eds.), Leiden: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 319-348.

Brooks, Mary R. (2008), North American Freight Transportation: The Road to Security and Prosperity. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.

Brooks, Mary R. and Ron Pelot (2008), Port Security: A Risk-Based Approach, in Maritime Safety, Security and Piracy, Wayne Talley (ed.) London: Informa Publications, 195-216.

Brooks, Mary R. (2007), Addressing Gaps in the Transportation Network: Seizing Canada's Continental Gateway Advantage, Toronto: Conference Board of Canada, October. ISBN: 978-0-88763-802-2.

Brooks, Mary R. and Kenneth J. Button (2007), Maritime Container Security: A Cargo Interest Perspective, in Port, Maritime and Supply Chain Security: Frameworks, Models and Applications, Bichou, K., M. Bell and A. Evans, (eds.), London: Informa, pp. 221-236.

Brooks, Mary R. and Kevin Cullinane eds. (2007), Devolution, Port Performance and Port Governance (Research in Transport Economics Volume 17). Oxford: Elsevier.

Brooks, Mary R., J.R.F. Hodgson and J. D. Frost (2006), Short Sea Shipping on the East Coast of North America: an analysis of opportunities and issues, Halifax: Dalhousie University. (Project ACG-TPMI-AH08, Transport Canada)

Brooks, Mary R. (2005), The Jones Act Under NAFTA and Its Effects on the Canadian Shipbuilding Industry, a report for the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, pp. 64. (This refereed research report for government was commissioned by the Department of Foreign Affairs in 2003 and has been reprinted by the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies as a Research Paper in September 2006.)

Hodgson, J.R.F. and Mary R. Brooks (2004), Canada's Maritime Cabotage Policy: A Report for Transport Canada, Halifax: Marine Affairs Program, pp.83.

Hodgson, J.R.F. and Mary R. Brooks (2003), Recent Developments in International Shipping Policy and Their Implications for Canada, A Report for Transport Canada, Halifax: Marine Affairs Program, pp.103.

Brooks, Mary R., Kenneth Button and Peter Nijkamp (2002), Maritime Transport, Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar as part of a 8-volume Classics in Transport Analysis series edited by Kenneth Button and Peter Nijkamp, 558 pp.

Brooks, Mary R. (2000), Sea Change in Liner Shipping: Regulation and Managerial Decision-Making in a Global Industry, Oxford: Pergamon Press.