Environmental management in the Port of Koper and neighboring urban settlements

Abstract

Service quality and appropriate environmental management in the Port of Koper are a constant concern for the administration. The port is located at the northern and eastern borders of the town of Koper, therefore, the administration has always paid careful attention to limiting and controlling its potentially negative environmental impacts. All its spatial interventions have therefore been subject to thorough spatial and environmental assessment. The withdrawal of some potentially inappropriate projects in the history of the Port was an obvious result of detailed assessments. During the preparation of the development and spatial plans, significant corrections and moderating measures were introduced in the majority of the proposed projects due to the port's location close to the urban environment. Permanent environmental monitoring of noise, air and water in the Bay of Koper was also introduced during the investments of the past twenty years, which made auditing of the Port's impacts on the environment possible.

Comparison of benthic indices for the evaluation of ecological status of three Slovenian transitional water bodies (northern Adriatic)

“…Even if the restoration completed in 2007 succeeded in ameliorating physical chemical values (Lipej and Oven, 2009), the degree of confinement, the heavy freshwater influence and the high variability in physical chemical parameters, still represented an extremely stressful environment for macrobenthic fauna. Moreover, rivers Rižana and Badaševica supply the bay with a significant amount of nutrients and some pollutants, namely faecal and industrial wastewaters, fertilizers, pesticides, and toxic elements, such as Cd, Sb, Pb and Hg (Bajt et al, 2006;Frančišković-Bilinski et al, 2007). Road traffic from the nearby highway also affect the area with water runoff, resulting in high levels of hydrocarbons in sediments (Bajt, 2008).…”