A Virtuous Circle? Increasing Local Benefits from Ports by Adopting Circular Economy Principles

Roberts, Toby; Williams, I.D.; Preston, John; Clarke, Nick; Odum, Melinda; O’Gorman, Stefanie

doi:10.3390/su13137079

Cited by 24 publications

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“…This can enable ports to provide additional benefits for the local residents, improving the port-city relationship. This would be most effective when paired with methods to increase hard values in more sustainable ways, such as adding additional local economic benefits via circular economy principles [61] and renewable energy.…”

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Love Thy Neighbour: Social Benefits and Port-City Relationships

et al. 2021

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As awareness of the negative externalities created by ports increases, and the perceived local benefits decrease, ports must find new ways to improve the local noneconomic benefits they provide if they are to obtain local support. This global survey collected data from 51 ports in 26 countries. The results highlight a recognition by port authorities that ports face increasing pressure from local residents to reduce their negative impacts and that they should seek to improve the public perception towards the port by increasing local benefits. At present, port information and social media (81%), port events (67%) and education (63%) are the most adopted options. There is a lack of evidence that these measures are effective in improving local perceptions. Maritime museums and public access show a positive association with increasing local awareness of the benefits a port provides, despite their lower levels of adoption (45%). Port centres are the least adopted option at present (29%) and can be expected to increase significantly, with a 43% increase anticipated between numbers of current and expected future centres. Education (14%), public access (13%) and maritime museums (4.5%) also show increases in levels of interest. Maritime museums and public access should be pursued as proven, effective options for improving local perceptions of ports, whilst port centres may provide a new focal point for port-related social and cultural activities.

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Love Thy Neighbour: Social Benefits and Port-City Relationships

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“…This issue is stressed by the European Parliament, as well as European Sea Ports Organization (Haezendonck & Van den Berghe, 2020 ). Ports of Rotterdam, Amsterdam, Antwerp, Southampton, and Gävle are among the ones that have already adopted CE (Roberts et al, 2021 ).…”

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A bibliometric analysis of the literature on circular economy and sustainability in maritime studies

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Over the last decade, many academics, practitioners, and policy-makers have focused on the notion of circular economy (CE) as a way to operationalize sustainable development. There is, however, a shortage of review studies that reflect the evolution and status of CE with respect to sustainability in the maritime industry. The purpose of this study is to conduct a bibliometric analysis of the development of CE in research on sustainable maritime processes/operations in the maritime industry. To accomplish this, the study uses citation analysis (publication distribution, productive journals, cross-country collaborations), co-occurrence analysis of the subject categories, co-citation analysis, and keyword frequency analysis. To collect data, the study utilizes the Web of Science database. Such software packages as CiteSpace, Histcite, and VOSviewer are used to analyze the data collected. The results clarify that, in the maritime industry, CE is a micro-level sub-set of sustainability. Furthermore, the literature has mainly focused on waste management and life-cycle assessment as measures of CE 1.0 and CE 2.0, respectively. Assessing circularity in terms of R -imperatives highlights that “recycle,” “remanufacture,” “recover,” and “reduce” are widespread practices of circularity in the maritime industry. Shipping companies should evaluate the possibility of implementing CE by realizing shorter loop R -imperatives such as “refuse,” “reduce,” “reuse,” and “repair.” Scholars must further explore underdeveloped R -imperatives such as “refuse,” “refurbish,” “repurpose,” and “remine” in the maritime industry.

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“…However, it is possible that controlled production and recovery of struvite could promote circular economy (CE) opportunities for the wastewater treatment industry (Barr and Münch, 2001;Jaffer et al, 2002;Molinos-Senante et al, 2011;Siciliano et al, 2020), especially in coastal areas (Roberts et al, 2021). The precipitated struvite can be recovered and sold as fertiliser, reducing resource depletion by replacing fossil-fuel based P (Jaffer et al, 2002;Zhang and Mo, 2013).…”

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