Estimating the economic impacts of maritime port development: The case of A Coruña, Spain

Garcia, Xoán Ramón Doldán; Amil, María Luisa Chas; Touza, Julia

doi:10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2011.06.011

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“…Lately, the Galician fishing sector has suffered a significant reorganization, allowing for less but more competitive companies. The relevance of this sector is however, essentially connected to the size and value of captures [38]. The Port of Vigo (SW Galicia) is the biggest fishing port of the world.…”

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Sustainability of port activities within the framework of the fisheries sector: Port of Vigo (NW Spain)

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Antelo

Franco‐Uría

et al. 2013

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Sustainability of the fisheries sector is nowadays a key issue due to the significant impact that this activity may have on the environment. Besides fishing activity itself, other indirect impacts, like those originated from related activities and services also need to be addressed. For assessing the environmental burden of this sector, the indicator Ecological Footprint (EF) can be used. The application of EF to the fisheries sector is still uncommon and studies of associated activities (like ports) even more. In this work, classical EF methodology was applied in order to evaluate the environmental impact of the fisheries sector, taking as a representative sample the global activity (fishing and transportation) of the Port of Vigo (Spain), one of the biggest fishing ports in the world. A high value of total EF for both port and fishing activities was obtained.However, relative EF is much higher in the case of fishing, due to the low natural productivity associated to fish resources. Most of footprint land-components pressure was on energy-land and sea area, being resources consumption the principal category contributing to EF values in all the evaluated scenarios.

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Sustainability of port activities within the framework of the fisheries sector: Port of Vigo (NW Spain)

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Antelo

Franco‐Uría

et al. 2013

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“…The functional bagplot method detected a greater number of outliers than the HDR boxplot, with the following number of outliers being higher for the HDR boxplot method: SO 2 (five), NO (five), NO 2 (five), CO (five), PM 10 (five), and O 3 (three). The bagplot method identified SO 2 (10), NO (13), NO 2 (5), CO (10), PM 10 (7), and O 3 (5).…”

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“…The growth in maritime transport due to globalization has made seaports crucial for economic and social development, accounting for over 80% of world trade [2,3]. Several ports in northwest Spain, including La Coruña, Ferrol, and Gijón (El Musel), have expanded to accommodate increased traffic [4,5]. Pollution issues have also been observed in other Spanish ports such as Santander and La Coruña, which have implemented various solutions to mitigate the problem [6].…”

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Method for the Detection of Functional Outliers Applied to Quality Monitoring Samples in the Vicinity of El Musel Seaport in the Metropolitan Area of Gijón (Northern Spain)

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Air pollution affects human health and is one of the main problems in the world, including in coastal cities with industrial seaports. In this sense, the city of Gijón (northern Spain) stands out as one of the 20 Spanish cities with the worst air quality. The study aims to identify outliers in air quality observations near the El Musel seaport, resulting from the emissions of six pollutants over an eight-year period (2014–2021). It compares methods based on the functional data analysis (FDA) approach and vector methods to determine the optimal approach for detecting outliers and supporting air quality control. Our approach involves analyzing air pollutant observations as a set of curves rather than vectors. Therefore, in the FDA approach, curves are constructed to provide the best fit to isolated data points, resulting in a collection of continuous functions. These functions capture the behavior of the data in a continuous domain. Two FDA approach methodologies were used here: the functional bagplot and the high-density region (HDR) boxplot. Finally, outlier detection using the FDA approach was found to be more powerful than the vector methods and the functional bagplot method detected more outliers than the HDR boxplot.

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“…This restricts the continuity and stability of the traditional fishing community's activities (da Costa Oliveira et al, 2016). As a comparison, the development of Coruna Outer Port in Galicia (Spain) created a huge economic loss for fishermen, due to the loss of a productive fishing area (Doldán-García et al, 2011). The development also had significant ecological impacts on the marine ecosystem and natural resources, affecting both the quantity and the quality of fishing.…”

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Living on the edge: Identifying challenges of port expansion for local communities in developing countries, the case of Jakarta, Indonesia

Delphine

Busquet

Santpoort

et al. 2019

Ocean & Coastal Management

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Estimating the economic impacts of maritime port development: The case of A Coruña, Spain

Cited by 15 publications

References 23 publications

Sustainability of port activities within the framework of the fisheries sector: Port of Vigo (NW Spain)

Sustainability of port activities within the framework of the fisheries sector: Port of Vigo (NW Spain)

Method for the Detection of Functional Outliers Applied to Quality Monitoring Samples in the Vicinity of El Musel Seaport in the Metropolitan Area of Gijón (Northern Spain)

Living on the edge: Identifying challenges of port expansion for local communities in developing countries, the case of Jakarta, Indonesia

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