DISCUSSION: THE EXTENSION OF SYSTEM BOUNDARIES IN SHIP DESIGN

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A Hagen
A Grimstad

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This paper is to be welcomed as it argues for the broadening of ship design from what has generally been too narrow a focus in most cases due to the ship design process being a largely evolutionary approach. Given current environmental preoccupations, the authors’ approach is strongly driven by concerns over sustainability, in contrast some other broadening approaches have, for example, done so with an emphasis on ship architecture [23, 24]. Thus the authors’ approach seeks to make the profession recognise that even at the preliminary stages of ship design that it is complex and challenging but more appropriate in having a wider boundary than a directly (or simplistically) economic one.

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