1 an area of water next to the coast where ships and boats can shelter, or a small port:
3 a safe place, especially a country where you can keep your money protected:
We drove into the car park at Martin's Haven from where the boat leaves for Skomer.
They stopped off in small harbours, boat havens and coves along the way.
The theory of pollution havens is straightforward; however, empirical evidence for their existence is mixed.
Thus, the parent as well as the infant should experience a volition to seek a haven of safety if sufficiently alarmed.
One would imagine them to be havens for the multitudes of unemployed and underemployed youths, many of them rural migrants.
The idea of the region as a safe haven for the generation of ideas also underlies initiatives for regional programmes with civil society organisations.
Therefore, the demand for the pollution haven countries' exports of dirty industries should increase.
