Modeling Tradeoff in Ship Breaking Industry Considering Sustainability Aspects: A System Dynamics Approach

Kusumaningdyah, Widha; Eunike, Agustina; Yuniarti, Rahmi

doi:10.1016/j.proenv.2013.02.096

Cited by 18 publications

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“…There were only 4 publications which discussed more than one dimension and were categorized as interdisciplinary (Neser et al 2008, Choi et al 2016, Devault et al 2016 evident; only publications published out of 110 (McKenney 1994, Knapp et al 2008, Kagkarakis et al 2016, Kusumaningdyah et al 2013, Schoyen et al 2017) ( Figure 6). Figure 6: Dimensions of sustainability addressed in selected papers.…”

Section: Dimensions Of Sustainable Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Critical Review of Shipbreaking Literature Reveals Shortcomings in Dimensions Considered for Sustainability

Rahman¹

2020

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The shipbreaking industry is located predominantly in South Asian countries, and dismantles end-of-life ships to meet national steel demand. There are charges that this industry exploits local environmental, economic and social conditions to boost profits. The majority of this previous research often draws from a single disciplinary point of view that ignores or downplays complexities and trade-offs, precluding realistic policy improvement. Here we review 110 shipbreaking papers published in international peer reviewed journals that are indexed in SCOPUS, Science Direct and Google Scholar. We found that to date, shipbreaking research revolves around the coastal contamination of end-of-life ships waste over many other topics, and lacks critical interdisciplinary studies that explain trade-offs between environmental, social and economic factors that would better inform policy formulations for improvement of worker safety and environmental conditions. We propose a Life Cycle Sustainability assessment (LCSA) framework that could incorporate these trade-offs in a single analysis. We hope this review guides future studies towards more comprehensive sustainability measurement of shipbreaking activities.

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Section: Dimensions Of Sustainable Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Critical Review of Shipbreaking Literature Reveals Shortcomings in Dimensions Considered for Sustainability

Rahman¹

2020

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“…Ship breaking industry Kusumaningdyah et al (2013) satisfaction of human needs and aspirations in the major objective of development, then this election would be wrong. Thus, normative concepts are useful to give an account of idealistic scenarios, views of the world, expectations of a given society or human organization, or to set aspirations of humankind regarding the relationship with the environment.…”

Section: Cropping Systemmentioning

confidence: 99%

Analysis of meanings of the concept of sustainability

Salas-Zapata

Ortiz-Muñoz

2018

Sustainable Development

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The ambiguity and polysemy of the concept of sustainability is a problem often faced by researchers. The existence of definitions that are not operative, diverse and sometimes contradictory represents a difficulty for the election of a suitable concept of sustainability. Even most of the research works whose title includes the term sustainability do not define what it is, which eventually, constitutes a methodological error.This leads the researchers to avoid defining sustainability, or to study it indirectly through the study of social and ecological variables of certain systems. The present work analysed the meanings conveyed by the concept of sustainability according to researchers. The uses that researchers make of the term sustainability were employed to reveal such meanings. Four uses were identified, which allowed the identification of four meanings of the concept of sustainability. This concluded that the meanings of the concept of sustainability are neither many nor as ambiguous as other authors point out, and that this classification of uses and meanings could be employed to avoid frequent errors made by researchers.

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“…The scrapping activity is based on recovery of the ship's metal, and there is no interest in the materials that have no commercial value, which affirms this as a metal recovery industry, not one of recycling. The concept of life cycle management of the components and services is not yet instilled in the maritime industry [19,38,[75][76][77].…”

Section: Breaking or Recyclingmentioning

confidence: 99%