Pollutant Emissions in Ports: A Comprehensive Review

Barberi, Salvatore; Sambito, Mariacrocetta; Neduzha, Larysa O.; Severino, Alessandro

doi:10.3390/infrastructures6080114

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“…Permitting and Licensing (vehicle registration and incentives for green fleet management) of low-emission and electric vehicles makes it easier for individuals and businesses to adopt sustainable transportation options [96,97].…”

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A Fuzzy Cognitive Map and PESTEL-Based Approach to Mitigate CO2 Urban Mobility: The Case of Larissa, Greece

Kokkinos

Nathanail

2023

Sustainability

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The CO2 reduction promise must be widely adopted if governments are to decrease future emissions and alter the trajectory of urban mobility. However, from a long-term perspective, the strategic vision of CO2 mitigation is driven by inherent uncertainty and unanticipated volatility. As these issues emerge, they have a considerable impact on the future trends produced by a number of exogenous and endogenous factors, including Political, Economic, Social, Technological, Environmental, and Legal aspects (PESTEL). This study’s goal is to identify, categorize, and analyze major PESTEL factors that have an impact on the dynamics of urban mobility in a rapidly changing environment. For the example scenario of the city of Larissa, Greece, a Fuzzy Cognitive Map (FCM) approach was employed to examine the dynamic interactions and behaviors of the connected criteria from the previous PESTEL categories. An integrative strategy that evaluates the interaction of linguistic evaluations in the FCM is used to include all stakeholders in the creation of a Decision Support System (DSS). The methodology eliminates the uncertainty brought on by a dearth of quantitative data. The scenarios in the study strands highlight how urbanization’s effects on sustainable urban transportation and the emergence of urban PESTEL actors impact on CO2 reduction decision-making. We focus on the use case of Larissa, Greece (the city of the CIVITAS program), which began putting its sustainable urban development plan into practice in 2015. The proposed decision-making tool uses analytics and optimization algorithms to point responsible authorities and decision-makers in the direction of Larissa’s sustainable urban mobility and eventually the decarbonization of the urban and suburban regions.

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Section: P25mentioning

confidence: 99%

A Fuzzy Cognitive Map and PESTEL-Based Approach to Mitigate CO2 Urban Mobility: The Case of Larissa, Greece

Kokkinos

Nathanail

2023

Sustainability

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“…In recent years, due to the rapid growth of urban populations, along with the rapid development of coastal and harbor industries and coastal mariculture, the loading of pollutants such as nitrogen, phosphorus and chemical oxygen demand (COD) into the sea has increased continuously, and marine ecological disasters, such as red tides, have occasionally occurred. In view of the important role played by coastal zones in the world's social and economic development, especially with their rapid social and economic development, the globalization of marine ecological environment problems in offshore waters has gradually become prominent, and countries that depend on their coastlines have carried out studies on the marine environmental capacities of pollutants [2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10]. A specific method to study the environmental capacity of Kastela Bay in Yugoslavia has been proposed [11].…”

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Numerical Simulation of the Marine Environmental Capacity of Jinpu Bay

Hao,

Cui,

Zhang

et al. 2024

Water

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Based on the study of the marine environmental capacity, a water quality model and a response field-based linear programming method are adopted here. Water quality control objectives are taken as the constraint conditions, according to the requirements of Jinpu Bay’s functional zoning. The pollutant response coefficient and water quality background value are combined with the values of the water concentration quality control points set in each functional area and the target value of the functional area wherein they are located. The maximum allowable emission intensity of inorganic nitrogen, phosphate and chemical oxygen demand (COD) can be calculated using the linear programming method of the maximum allowable emission of pollutants at estuaries or sewage outfall points on Jinpu Bay. The research results reveal the diffusion of marine pollutants and the marine environmental capacity of Jinpu Bay. Some rivers need to reduce the discharge intensity and some other outlets still have a certain residual capacity. Based on this, the environmental capacity of Jinpu Bay was evaluated, and a technical reference is provided for the economic development of the region and the formulation of pollutant emission control policies.

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“…Roles played by ports are important to the transition of the maritime sector towards sustainability [15]. Sustainable ports focusing on the social, economic and environmental impacts, attempt to mitigate the above effects and also their carbon footprints by adopting policies to comply with national and international regulations [16]. Practices in making green ports involve several dimensions or subindices like environmental, technologies, monitoring and upgrading, process and quality improvement, active participation, communication and cooperation along with port management tools, monitoring, etc.…”

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Port Sustainability Index: Methodological Issues

2024

JEESc

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Approaches to find impact of maritime transport on environmental performance of ports or port regions through models with different sets of assumptions suffer from limitations. The paper describes an integrated Port Sustainability Index (PSI) by combining relevant environmental aspects of port processes and operations by transforming each indicator to follow normal distribution and taking PSI as sum of such normally distributed indicator scores, avoiding skew and outliers. Thus, there is no bias for developed or under-developed ports. PSI is simple and satisfies desired properties including assessment of effectiveness of policy measures through responsiveness, statistical tests of equality of mean PSI across ports. Dimensions of PSI can be ranked by respective elasticity. The method also helps to find growth curve of PSI of a port over time. Proposed PSI may help port authorities to evaluate their performance from the sustainability angle along with performances in the relevant dimensions and may serve as a strategic tool for port environmental performance management.

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Pollutant Emissions in Ports: A Comprehensive Review

Cited by 34 publications

References 109 publications

A Fuzzy Cognitive Map and PESTEL-Based Approach to Mitigate CO2 Urban Mobility: The Case of Larissa, Greece

A Fuzzy Cognitive Map and PESTEL-Based Approach to Mitigate CO2 Urban Mobility: The Case of Larissa, Greece

Numerical Simulation of the Marine Environmental Capacity of Jinpu Bay

Port Sustainability Index: Methodological Issues

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