DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-6385-5_1
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Understanding Environmental Security At Ports And Harbors

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“…At a larger scale, the need for resilience planning to provide environmental security, which “…involves actions that guard against environmental degradation to preserve or protect human, material, and natural resources at scales ranging from global to local in a sustainable manner,” (Wenning et al 2007) is increasingly clear following the massive costs, in economic and human terms, of recent hurricanes, tsunamis, earthquakes, nuclear accidents, and terrorist activities.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…At a larger scale, the need for resilience planning to provide environmental security, which “…involves actions that guard against environmental degradation to preserve or protect human, material, and natural resources at scales ranging from global to local in a sustainable manner,” (Wenning et al 2007) is increasingly clear following the massive costs, in economic and human terms, of recent hurricanes, tsunamis, earthquakes, nuclear accidents, and terrorist activities.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…A further approach is to look into the environmental security literature that addresses ecological risks of catastrophic events (e.g., Apitz 2007; Wenning et al 2007). Both in Apitz (2007) and Wenning et al (2007), three broad categories of environmental security are addressed: (1) manmade or natural gradual changes that slowly erode economic and environmental sustainability (e.g., bird flu, gradual pollution, climate change), (2) natural catastrophic Environmental consequences governed by release of polluting substances, degree and duration of impact on ecosystem, requirement of remediation, and remedial costs°D egree of toxicity and pollution, characteristics of surrounding areas, and degree of transportation°D egree of exposure by direct intake of contaminated soil, dermal contact, inhalation of dust and vapors, and intake of drinking water, vegetables, and fish events that, to some extent, may be predictable and thereby possible to plan responses and protection measures (e.g., extreme weather, earthquakes, waters), and (3) manmade catastrophic events that are typically sudden and unpredictable (e.g., sudden pollution, unanticipated accidents, terrorism). Landslides of contaminated soil into surface waters should belong to category 2 even though the event may be trigged by man (e.g., by excavation, loading, unloading, etc.).…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The top-of-the-agenda insecurity for ports to deal with is pollution in the port area by ships’ dispersal of waste and other residues to water (Blakesley, 2006). Pollution is difficult to tackle, as more awareness is raised for ports as crucial in the global trade, but also as there has been ‘a growing awareness of the need to ensure that health, environment and safety are adequately protected and considered as an integral function of these facilities’ (Wenning et al, 2007: 4). Clearly, economic and environmental agendas conflict most vibrantly in port policies and securing.…”
Section: Insecurity In Portsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…For example, the Port of Rotterdam focuses primarily on the dangers of terrorist attacks on containers or mass goods (such as oil), while the Port of New Orleans has faced natural disaster (e.g. hurricane Katrina) and its consequences (Wenning et al, 2007).…”
Section: Insecurity In Portsmentioning
confidence: 99%
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