A global approach to mapping the environmental risk of harbours on aquatic systems

  • Paloma F. Valdor
  • , Aina G. Gómez
  • , Peter Steinberg
  • , Edwina Tanner
  • , Antony M. Knights
  • , Rochelle D. Seitz
  • , Laura Airoldi
  • , Louise B. Firth
  • , Christos Arvanitidis
  • , Massimo Ponti
  • , Eva Chatzinikolaou
  • , Paul R. Brooks
  • , Tasman P. Crowe
  • , Alison Smith
  • , Gonzalo Méndez
  • , Aida Ovejero
  • , Abilio Soares-Gomes
  • , John A. Burt
  • , Catriona MacLeod
  • , José A. Juanes*
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

The goal of this paper is to propose a screening method for assessing the environmental risk to aquatic systems in harbours worldwide. A semi-quantitative method is based on environmental pressures, environmental conditions and societal response. The method is flexible enough to be applied to 15 harbours globally distributed through a multinational test using standardised and homogenised open data that can be obtained for any port worldwide. The method emerges as a useful approach towards the foundation of a global environmental risk atlas of harbours that should guide the harbour sector to develop a more globally informed strategy of sustainable development.

Original languageEnglish
Article number104051
JournalMarine Policy
Volume119
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Sept 2020

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Aquatic Science
  • General Environmental Science
  • Economics and Econometrics
  • Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
  • Law

Keywords

  • Environmental risk assessment
  • Global atlas
  • Harbour aquatic systems
  • Harbour management
  • Pressure-state-response model
  • Sustainable development

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