Driving Mechanism of Port-City Spatial Relation Evolution from an Ecological Perspective: Case Study of Xiamen Port of China

Yu, Ling; Xu, Pengfei; Shi, Jia; Chen, Jihong; Zhou, Hong

doi:10.3390/su12072857

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“…It has been documented that the increase in national and international economic transactions and port growth are drivers of business and employment opportunities that boost the growth of port cities. In turn, these favor the creation of multimodal terminals and industries grouped by sector at the periphery, whose demands for services foster local development [40,41]. In the 2020 population census, Manzanillo was the city with the most vigorous population growth over the past decade and was the most populated city, even above the capital city of the state of Colima, evidencing the development boosted by port growth [37].…”

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Citizen Science Contributions to the Conservation of Sea Turtles Facing Port City and Land Use Stressors in the Mexican Central Pacific

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Hernández-López

Verduzco-Zapata

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The unplanned development of a port city generates urban growth in its coastal zone that stresses the local biotic and abiotic resources, affecting the nesting beach areas of sea turtles. This work evaluated the impact of social collaboration on sea turtle conservation in response to coastal rigidization. Over the past twenty years, the Manzanillo Port (Colima), located in the Mexican Central Pacific, underwent vigorous development and urbanization. This growth has produced stressors including increasing levels of marine noise pollution due to the transit of merchant ships, the decrease in 4.3 ha in beach areas, and increased light pollution, which likely reduced the number of turtles that reached the nesting stage. Despite the above, the number of turtle nests has increased thanks to social collaboration through protection actions, education programs, and the participation of volunteers along with public and private organizations supported by the media and social networks. These actions are part of citizen science and contribute to the balance between urban development and the protection of sea turtles, reducing environmental vulnerability in the coastal zone. This success story can be reproduced in coastal cities for other wildlife species to achieve a social-ecological benefit through advocacy projects that involve the empowerment of local inhabitants and the appropriation of their landscapes and natural elements. These projects will contribute to alleviating the effects of coastal rigidization in the face of future challenges that will require solutions to different environmental aspects of imminent climate change.

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Citizen Science Contributions to the Conservation of Sea Turtles Facing Port City and Land Use Stressors in the Mexican Central Pacific

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Hernández-López

Verduzco-Zapata

et al. 2022

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“…Moreover, research mainly focuses on ports or cities separately, rather than combining the two [19], although many ports have remained close to cities, and with the growth of port activities, the need to transport goods through urban zones often increases, negatively affecting traffic and urban life, and creating an even wider gap between the concepts of urban development and those of port development [20].…”

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“…Accordingly, throughput is expected to increase from 27.4 to 35.1 million tons of cargo in 2030 [77] and from 37.5 to 49.9 million tons in 2040 [78], depending mainly on the quality and capacity of hinterland connections. Such growth would bring positive economic effects; however, it would also mean additional pressure on surrounding roads and habitat and lead to increased external costs of port-related traffic and a deterioration of the quality of life in the vicinity of the port, especially if not planned holistically [20] 3, suggest that living in the municipality of Koper offers some advantages in relation to other municipalities in Slovenia; mainly more employment opportunities and higher wages. This means that the port of Koper still acts as a driver of socio-economic development in the municipality and attracts new residents to the region.…”

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The Effect of Port Gate Location and Gate Procedures on the Port-City Relation

2021

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Ports are important hubs that have positive impacts on the regions they serve, but they also pose some challenges that need to be addressed. Many ports around the world have aligned their development strategies with the concept of green growth; however, the green and efficient performance of ports does not only depend on the port management itself; some elements need to be negotiated and approved by local and national governments. One of such elements is road port access. We investigated the impact of port gate location and port gate procedures on port’s performance by examining the case of the Adriatic port of Koper, the only Slovenian international cargo port. We found that significant external costs are incurred due to a non-optimized situation caused by the lack of coordination and cooperation on all levels, although the port of Koper is one of European core ports. Further, delayed digitalization of port gate procedures caused by port management adds to degradation of port city relations.

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“…Together, these three elements typically increase port revenue by up to 20% (Abu Aisha, 2020). Because the time required to improve networks and fleets is greater than business or operational measures and requires strategic development, these two measures, in particular, can increase port revenue by 6% to 8% (Yu, 2020).…”

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Evaluation of the components of intelligence and greenness in Iranian ports based on network data envelopment analysis (DEA) approach

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Harsej²,

Hajiaghaei–Keshteli

et al. 2021

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Purpose Creating green ports, while observing international and international standards and maritime conventions and regulations and moving toward smart ports, can increase the speed of goods transfer, enable the tracking of ships and goods, increase the transparency of statistics, increase the quality and capacity of ports and reduce costs. Hence, the purpose of this study the development and evaluation of ports play a key role in their commercial success. Development policies can be formulated for these ports by properly evaluating their performance indicators. On the other hand, traditional methods of performance evaluation cannot provide a good multidimensional evaluation of the status of ports. Design/methodology/approach More than 90% of the world’s heavy transit today is carried out by the sea. With this volume of freight, transit accidents are inevitable for ships passing through oceans, seas, waterways, rivers, ports and mooring at docks. Besides, gases from ships’ fuels at sea, especially in ports, oil spills due to maritime incidents, the negligence of the ship’s crew, the use of port equipment, dirty fuel of diesel power substations, etc., have increased greenhouse gases, polluted the environment and endangered human lives. Findings A new approach has been introduced in the field of port performance evaluation based on the components of greenness and intelligence. This approach performs evaluations in two stages and a network. In this study, the performance of 11 Iranian ports was evaluated based on the network data envelopment analysis approach in 2 stages of greenness and intelligence during 4 years. The results indicated that only 5% of the ports meet the standards of intelligence and greenness. Originality/value On the other hand, as shown in the above studies, the issue of green ports is directly related to the development of animal and plant ecosystems in the seas and the environment around ports. The presence of pollution in the ports has caused the animal and plant habitats around the ports to face a complete pollution crisis or to be completely destroyed. Therefore, the development of green port concepts in third world countries will help prevent environmental pollution of the seas. Therefore, it is necessary for ports to review their strategic maritime transport model and use the development of green port indicators in their implementation processes. Therefore, the strategic development of green ports is created to create and benefit from the components of intelligence, and as mentioned in previous research, intelligence and greenness are in line and the lack of development of one of the concepts causes defects in others. According to reports provided in Iran’s maritime transport systems, most accidents have led to environmental disasters during the absence of intelligent equipment. The use of smart technologies prevents all environmental damage and the development of port services. On the other hand, in evaluating the published articles in the field of development of green and smart ports, so far, the components of intelligence and greenness have not been evaluated and analyzed in a practical and operational way in ports and only the influencing the development of agents on each other has been done (Chen, 2019). Therefore, evaluating the efficiency of ports based on green components and intelligence causes ports to fundamentally review their executive infrastructure and take an active part in the global green development plan.

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Driving Mechanism of Port-City Spatial Relation Evolution from an Ecological Perspective: Case Study of Xiamen Port of China

Cited by 14 publications

References 18 publications

Citizen Science Contributions to the Conservation of Sea Turtles Facing Port City and Land Use Stressors in the Mexican Central Pacific

Citizen Science Contributions to the Conservation of Sea Turtles Facing Port City and Land Use Stressors in the Mexican Central Pacific

The Effect of Port Gate Location and Gate Procedures on the Port-City Relation

Evaluation of the components of intelligence and greenness in Iranian ports based on network data envelopment analysis (DEA) approach

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