Knowledge co-production in practice: Enabling environmental management systems for ports through participatory research in the Dutch Wadden Sea

Puente-Rodríguez, Daniel; Slobbe, Erik van; Al, Iris A.C.; Lindenbergh, D.E.D.

doi:10.1016/j.envsci.2015.02.014

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“…Third, a number of tools can be classified as integrated management approaches. For example, environmental management systems (EMS) based on an internationally recognized environmental management standard have been promoted as a priority green port tool [53,81,86,87]. With this tool, port authorities prepare a plan that details their environmental policy objectives, environmental aspects of their operations, legal requirements that regulate their operations and their mitigating programs and initiatives [88].…”

Section: Green Port Tools Technologies and Measuresmentioning

confidence: 99%

Selective Adoption: How Port Authorities in Europe and West Africa Engage with the Globalizing ‘Green Port’ Idea

2019

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The scholarly debate on ‘green ports’ since it emerged in the policy discourse of international maritime organizations has largely focused on exploring the economic benefits associated with implementing related policies and developing green guides and codes of conduct for port authorities. In contrast, it has received little attention how the green port idea and according measures are taken up and what role is played by contextual factors in places of such uptake. By engaging with the expanding literature on policy mobilities and drawing on empirical information collected through interviews with port officials from four ports in Europe and West Africa, we argue that context-specific factors strongly influence what we call the selective adoption of green port tools and measures for transitioning ports towards sustainability. They include environmental priorities, regulatory requirements, financial resources and the immediate areas of competence of port authorities, which all vary widely across regions and specific ports.

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Section: Green Port Tools Technologies and Measuresmentioning

confidence: 99%

Selective Adoption: How Port Authorities in Europe and West Africa Engage with the Globalizing ‘Green Port’ Idea

2019

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“…For instance, PAs provide waste reception facilities and adequate measures are taken, such as a concrete Environmental Management System (EMS), which consists of a set of internal policies, assessments, plans, and implementation actions for the entire organization with a focus on the effects on its relationships with the natural environment [166][167][168]. An EMS can support the organization respecting legislation and regulations notified by trade associations (including EcoPorts) and government bodies.…”

Section: Training For Environmental Sustainability Development Withinmentioning

confidence: 99%

Management Innovation for Environmental Sustainability in Seaports: Managerial Accounting Instruments and Training for Competitive Green Ports beyond the Regulations

2018

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Abstract:In the last 30 years, environmental sustainability has been receiving increasing attention by scholars and operators. All the seaport stakeholders, including port authorities (PAs), policy-makers, port users, any port stakeholders, and local communities, must invest substantial resources to achieve high competitiveness with respect of the environment. Drawing from the extant regulations system and conducting a deep review of the main contributions on the phenomenon, this conceptual study suggests managerial accounting instruments and training, which are still under-researched, as effective measures for enforcing and encouraging green port development. This three-step study consists of a systematic review of the regulatory frameworks and literature on the phenomenon, and an outline of the gap of the legislative framework and research, from a management innovation perspective, where effective managerial practices for environmental sustainability are not successfully suggested and implemented within seaports. On the one hand, the Balanced Scorecard and Tableau de Bord are identified and proposed as managerial accounting instruments for assessing, monitoring, measuring, controlling, and reporting the organizational processes of port players, mainly PAs, for developing competitive green ports. On the other hand, training has been suggested to educate and guide the human resources at all organizational levels within seaports, for supporting and developing awareness and behavioral attitudes in the direction of environmental sustainability.

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“…This project exemplifies scientific research with targeted outreach rather than co-production of knowledge (Harris and Lyon 2014;Schuttenberg and Guth 2015;Puente-Rodríguez et al 2016). Pohl (2007) recognized two types of interactions between the academic sector and other societal sectors: one (like the shorelines project) that reorganizes knowledge aimed at policy decisions, synthesizing academic information for use by community representatives; and one that is a co-production of knowledge, where the interaction among all stakeholders is an integral part of research informing a particular public policy decision.…”

Section: Management-science Interaction Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

Integrating Regional Management Needs into a Mid-Atlantic Shorelines Research Project

Turner

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2017

Estuaries and Coasts

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We provide an example of how one estuarine research project engaged regional managers to help guide the research towards the needs of managers and policymakers dealing with shoreline management in the Mid-Atlantic region of the USA. Elements of the approach that contributed to success included a well-targeted initial request for proposals, a review process that included management input both as a review criterion and on the review panel, a careful process in choosing advisory members at the appropriate level in the agencies, regular opportunities for interactions between the management advisory group and the science team, and active involvement of a program manager as liaison throughout the life of the project. Engagement of a management advisory group changed some of the scientific approaches, helped to communicate results, and formed a foundation for incorporation into regional management and initiatives.

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Knowledge co-production in practice: Enabling environmental management systems for ports through participatory research in the Dutch Wadden Sea

Cited by 36 publications

References 25 publications

Selective Adoption: How Port Authorities in Europe and West Africa Engage with the Globalizing ‘Green Port’ Idea

Selective Adoption: How Port Authorities in Europe and West Africa Engage with the Globalizing ‘Green Port’ Idea

Management Innovation for Environmental Sustainability in Seaports: Managerial Accounting Instruments and Training for Competitive Green Ports beyond the Regulations

Integrating Regional Management Needs into a Mid-Atlantic Shorelines Research Project

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