Environmental Management Of Port Operations - The Ports Sector's Response To The European Dimension
Price
Free (open access)
Transaction
Volume
39
Pages
16
Published
1998
Size
1,646 kb
Paper DOI
10.2495/MAR980221
Copyright
WIT Press
Author(s)
C. F. Wooldridge, B. S. Tselentis and D. Whitehead
Abstract
Environmental management of port and harbour operations is taking on a consistently higher profile as the port sector responds to the challenges of new and evolving legislation aimed specifically at environmental protection. The formation of the European Ports Organisation, the first EU member states' independent port sector representative organisation, has been the catalyst for a series of port based initiatives offering a positive and increasingly proactive response to the environmental imperative. An environmental Code of Practice and several research projects have contributed both to policy development and effective implementation methodolo
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