Maritime Transport and Regional Sustainability

Maritime Transport and Regional Sustainability is a critical examination on how the maritime transport sector helps regions to achieve their sustainability goals, especially focusing on the challenges posed by climate change. This book analyzes maritime transport from multiple perspectives, establishing a strong theoretical framework drawn on evidence from both the developed and emerging economies across the globe. It identifies commonalities that contribute to a coherent transportregion relationship, including how maritime operations, planning, and management impact regional governance. Tracing the vital threads linking transport to its regional surroundings, Maritime Transport and Regional Sustainability analyses the major issues and challenges that maritime transport researchers, planners, and policymakers are facing.

Offers the latest original research and theory for transfer into practice

Applies evidence and theory drawn from cases across the globe

Assesses major governmental maritime infrastructure initiatives and their relation to sustainability

Part I: Theoretical settings

1. Setting the scene on maritime transport and regional sustainability

2. Environmental governance in shipping and ports: Sustainability and scale challenges

3. Storm resilience and sustainability at the Port of Providence, USA

4. Insights from recent economic modeling on port adaptation to climate change effects

5. Sustainability cruising and its supply chain

6. How does the UK transport system respond to the risks posed by climate change? An analysis from the perspective of adaptation planning

7. Green port initiatives for a more sustainable port-city interaction: The case study of Barcelona

8. Climate change adaptation and mitigation in ports: Advances in Colombia

9. Navigational risk factor analysis of Arctic shipping in ice-covered waters

10. Assessing the risk of potential oil spills due to shipping in the Arctic due to shipping

11. Future Arctic shipping, black carbon emissions, and climate change

12. Opportunities and challenges of the opening of the Arctic Ocean for Norway

13. Climate change, a double-edged sword: The case of Churchill on the Northwest Passage

14. An investigation into the responsibility of cruise tourism in China

15. Government initiatives on transport and regional systems: The development and management of Chinese high-speed rail

16. Connect or be connected strategy in the context of the Belt and Road Initiative: A Korean case

17. A multiobjective programming model for comparing existing and potential corridors between the Indian Ocean and China

18. Mehar method for solving unbalanced generalized interval-valued trapezoidal fuzzy number transportation problems