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.
Publication Date
2020-01-01
Publication Title
Marine Policy
Volume
119
ISSN
0308-597X
Keywords
Environmental risk assessment, Global atlas, Harbour aquatic systems, Harbour management, Pressure-state-response model, Sustainable development
Creative Commons License
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Recommended Citation
Juanes, J., Valdor, P., Gómez, A., Steinberg, P., Tanner, E., Knights, A., Seitz, R., Airoldi, L., Firth, L., Arvanitidis, C., Ponti, M., Chatzinikolaou, E., Brooks, P., Crowe, T., Smith, A., Méndez, G., Ovejero, A., Soares-Gomes, A., Burt, J., & MacLeod, C. (2020) 'A global approach to mapping the environmental risk of harbours on aquatic systems', Marine Policy, 119. Available at: 10.1016/j.marpol.2020.104051
