Here are some useful documents and resources relevant to seasteading, sometimes written by others, which we host. If you have something to add, drop us an email at info@seasteading.org.
- Castles In The Sea: A Survey of Artificial Islands and Floating Utopias (DOC), by Jim Lee. (Here is an imperfectly formatted HTML translation)
- Proposed Inhabited Artificial Islands in International Waters: International Law Analysis in Regards to Resource Use, Law of the Sea and Norms of Self-Determination and State Recognition by Rene Kardol. MA Thesis, Universiteit van Amsterdam, March, 1999. A great legal survey of the possibilities for artificial ocean structures to gain autonomy and recognition.
- Homestead (DOC), by Pat Whitaker. After reading our work, Pat was inspired to make a shipping container spar home design. The design is optimized for New Zealand, including a proposed location and the use of ironsand for ballast, and contains some excellent thoughts on the political and economic realities of seasteading.
- Dynamic Geography (HTML) - Patri's original paper on the theoretical foundation for why politics will work better on modular floating cities.
- The Legal Regime of Islands in the South China Sea [PDF], by Marius Gjetnes. Fall 2000 Masters Thesis, Department of Public and International Law, University of Oslo, Norway. A thorough discussion of international maritime law as regards islands.
- Report of a Sausalito Floating Homes Tour which Patri took in June 2004.