Port Cities Pollution And Public Health Environmental Health Issues From Shipping And Ports

Port cities of the world are critical nodes for international trade and socio-economic development. Yet they bear several costs including congestion and pollution which affect the local environment and population. In certain places living near the port –together with related industrial and logistical activities –is a synonym of adverse health outcomes resulting in several diseases and above-average unplanned hospital admissions and mortality. Decades of port-city physical separation have not eliminated such issues since deep-water facilities even outside urban cores impact local populations and reach port and non-port cities through extensive trucking flows. Specific traffic like cruise keeps operating within dense urban environments. This book is one of the first dedicated volumes on such matters with contributions from scholars on several continents (Europe Asia the Americas Africa and Oceania). It is highly interdisciplinary covering geography history economics management sciences regional science sociology public and comparative law physics energy and industrial engineering urban and spatial planning epidemiology architecture biology and environmental sciences. This volume offers an overview of current environmental and health issues in port cities. It starts by presenting the mitigation and perception of port pollution. Next it examines the health impacts of ports from a historical perspective and reviews and synthesizes the variety of existing approaches to measure the health impacts of ports and shipping. Finally it proposes a reflection on multilevel governance and policies. This book is a comprehensive resource for a wide readership including academics and upper-level students interested in maritime transport port management and sustainability as well as those in public management planning and governance. |Port Cities Pollution and Public Health Environmental Health Issues from Shipping and Ports