Its theoretical content is regarded as profound, if esoteric, but its practical applications border on the magical.
The areas considered here are based in the Large Marine Ecosystem classification or LMEs (http://www.lme.noaa.gov/) which are defined as "areas of the ocean characterized by distinct bathymetry, hydrology, productivity and trophic interactions", however with certain practical (political) border considerations.
Practical cross-border co-operation rather than southern aggrandisement will continue to be the name of the game over the next decade.
"That's not practical and borders on creepy".
In this area, there is a lack of compatibility within the Member States, and practical cross-border cooperation is made utterly impossible by the completely incompatible technical standards involved.
Only after facing Siamese invasion and experiencing fierce Khmer resistance did the Vietnamese court gradually replace its civilizational perspective with a more practical approach to border management, out of which emerged the modern borderline.
Bertrand believes this does not go far enough and that talks need to swiftly move to local planning or time will have run out for practical contingencies including border inspection posts and customs clearance checks.
From our party's point of view, if this thing falls apart and we get blamed because we're not practical, we created border security mechanisms that were unachievable, we tried to change the structure in a dramatic way and we get the blame, we're toast in 2016".
Christie's writing is like that of many others in the field: practical, no-nonsense, bordering on cliché, with a faint didactic hum.
A better approach would be to put together an international compensation and resettlement package for these refugees, housing as many of them as practical within the borders of the new Palestinian state.
