Mary R. Brooks

William A. Black Chair of Commerce
Kenneth C. Rowe Management Building
Dalhousie University
6100 University Ave (Room 5118)
PO Box: 15000
Halifax, B3H 4R2 Canada

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Dr. Mary R. Brooks is the William A. Black Chair of Commerce at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada and, with Stephen Ison, the Editor of Elsevier's Research in Transportation Business and Management. She has been actively engaged in the work of the Transportation Research Board (Washington DC) since 1993, chairing the Committee on International Trade and Transportation, serving on the Committee for Funding Options for Freight Transportation Projects of National Significance, and she was appointed to the Marine Board of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences in 2008. She is the founder and chair of the Port Performance Research Network, a network of more than 50 scholars interested in port governance and port performance issues. She is well known for her work on short sea shipping in Canada, the U.S. and Australia. Her latest book with Thanos Pallis, Classics in Port Policy and Management, was published by Edward Elgar in May 2012. In November 2006, she was named by the Women's Executive Network as Canada's Most Powerful Women: Top 100 in the professional category.

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., Schellinck, T. and Pallis A.A. (2011). Port Effectiveness: Users perspectives in North America. Transportation Research Record (TRR), 2222, 34-42.

Brooks M.R., Schellinck, T. and Pallis A.A. (2011). A systematic approach of evaluating Port Effectiveness. Maritime Policy and Management. 38(3), 315-334.

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

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.

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.