Sustainability Management in Smaller UK Ports to Promote More Sustainable Freight Transport

Dinwoodie, J. M.

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-62917-9_3

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“…To be sustainable, free zones should strike a balance among the three sustainability pillars of environmental protection, social welfare, and economic development [32,33]. Focusing on one pillar without considering the other sustainability pillars does not achieve sustainable development [34,35]. While some scholars have suggested that certain sustainability pillars are more crucial than others [13], the majority have emphasized the need of maintaining a balance across all sustainability pillars [36].…”

Section: Free Zones Sustainabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…While some scholars have suggested that certain sustainability pillars are more crucial than others [13], the majority have emphasized the need of maintaining a balance across all sustainability pillars [36]. Additionally, it has been noted that organizational sustainability is essential for striking a balance among different free zone sustainability aspects [35], enhancing performance, and boosting competitiveness [37,38].…”

Section: Free Zones Sustainabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In the economic aspect of sustainability for free zones, there are a set of proposed indicators as follows: the capital investment indicator [12,13,31,[39][40][41], foreign direct investment indicator [4,13,29,31,39,40], revenue increase indicator [4,13,29,33,35,40,42,43], capacity indicator [12,29,31,33,41,44], efficiency indicator [5,12,13,35,39,[43][44][45][46], quality indicator [4,5,29,33,35,[39][40][41][42]45,47], tax incentives indicator [29,48], and supportive infrastructure indicator [4,…”

Section: Economic Sustainability Assessment Indicatorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Regarding the social aspect of sustainability for free zones, there are a set of proposed indicators as follows: health, security, safety, housing and work conditions indicators [4,5,10,13,29,33,35,[39][40][41][42]45,48,50,51,53,55,57]; jobs provision and employee welfare indicators [4,5,11,13,29,31,33,[39][40][41][42]47,[51][52][53]55,57]; employee training and education indicators [5,11,13,29,33,35,[39][40][41][42][43][44][45]47,51,…”

Section: Social Sustainability Assessment Indicatorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…As for the organizational pillar of sustainability for free zones, there are a set of proposed indicators as follows: strategy and policy indicators [4,31,35,41,44], the risk management indicator [4,12,13,29,35,41,42,45], public relations indicator [47], and innovation [52,59].…”

Section: Organizational Sustainability Assessment Indicatorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Developing a Strategic Sustainability Assessment Methodology for Free Zones Using the Analytical Hierarchy Process Approach

Alansary

Al‐Ansari

2023

Sustainability

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The application of sustainability within free zones can be considered a means to enhancing their competitiveness. Free zones with a high level of sustainability are more likely to attract investment and other kinds of support, while meeting global obligations with regard to sustainable development. Accordingly, adopting sustainability assessment tools is crucial for measuring the sustainability effectiveness of free zones. In this context, this study addresses the sustainability assessment of free zones using the analytical hierarchy process (AHP) decision tool. The first contribution of this article is proposing a novel model for the strategic sustainability assessment in free zones, which considers all dimensions of sustainability. The second contribution is deriving the weights and priorities of the related model using the AHP method. The results demonstrate that the economic dimension is considered the most regarded sustainability pillar, with a percentage of 41.81%, followed by the environmental pillar at 24.97%; then, the social pillar at 22.26%, and finally, the organizational pillar at 10.96%. Although this study addressed sustainability assessment indicators, it did not delve into the individual components deeply, which may open opportunities to direct future research toward developing other sustainability assessment models in the context of free zones.

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