ABSTRACT
The debates over organization of marine affairs that emerged in the 1950s and 1960s have included several versions of the doctrine of efficiency. One emphasis has been on agency cooperation to ensure the efficient use of marine facilities, manpower, and data. The experience of the Bureau of Land Management, which had major marine programs given to it and then taken away from it in the 1970s, suggests that external forces can be of considerable importance. The political view is obviously employed quite frequently in analyses of the marine reorganization problem. The marine newsletters and magazines, such as Ocean Science News and Coastal Zone Management, rely heavily on the political view; so do conversations at marine-related conventions. The humanist view has played a rather small part in the debates over marine reorganization. The technology-environment management perspective is highly applicable to marine reorganization problems.
