Impacts of climate change on waterborne transport

Hawkes, P.J.; Pauli, Gernot; Moser, H.; Arntsen, Øivind Asgeir; Gaufres, Pierre; Mai, Stephan; White, Kathleen D.

doi:10.1680/cien.2010.163.5.55

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“…The first article linking climate change and seaports can be traced back to 2010. Focusing on the impacts of climate change on maritime navigation, Hawkes et al [44] discussed how the changes in precipitation, sea level rise, and velocity could influence vessels, ac-cessibility, transport infrastructure, and operation both positively and negatively. Also, they mentioned the utilisation of climate adaptation measures to respond to these impacts, which were clustered into diverse types of adaptation strategies and applied to the seaport sector in northwest Germany by Osthorst and Mänz [45].…”

Section: Sea Transportmentioning

confidence: 99%

Adapting to the Impacts Posed by Climate Change: Applying the Climate Change Risk Indicator (CCRI) Framework in a Multi-Modal Transport System

Wang

Poo

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Sustainability

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Climate change has threatened the infrastructure, operation, policymaking, and other pivotal aspects of transport systems with the accelerating pace of extreme weather events. While a considerable amount of research and best practices have been conducted for transport adaptation to climate change impacts, there is still a wide gap in the systematic assessment of climate risks on all-round transport modes (i.e., road, rail, sea, and air) with a comprehensive review and a quantitative scientific framework. This study aimed to critically review studies on how the transport sector has adapted to the impacts posed by climate change since the dawn of the 21st century. To support climate risk assessment in comprehensive transport systems, we developed a Climate Change Risk Indicator (CCRI) framework and applied it to the case of the British transport network. Focusing on a multi-modal transport system, this offers researchers and practitioners an invaluable overview of climate adaptation research with the latest tendency and empirical insights. Meanwhile, the developed CCRI framework elaborates a referable tool that enables decision-makers to employ objective data to realise quantitative risk analysis for rational transport adaptation planning.

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Section: Sea Transportmentioning

confidence: 99%

Adapting to the Impacts Posed by Climate Change: Applying the Climate Change Risk Indicator (CCRI) Framework in a Multi-Modal Transport System

Wang

Poo

et al. 2023

Sustainability

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“…The latter use detailed engineering-based models or ''engineering rules of thumbs'' (Larsen et al 2008, p.442) to estimate costs. One strand of literature investigates how water borne transport is affected by climate change (Beuthe et al 2014;Hawkes et al 2010;Schweighofer 2014) and use changes in river water depth to deduce changes in transport costs (which seem to be limited, however, depending on the analyzed region). Another strand of literature focuses on transport systems of urban areas, such as Arkell and Darch (2006), Kirshen et al (2008Kirshen et al ( , 2006, OCA (2005) or LCCP (2005, concluding that the costs of climate change can be substantial, if no (early) adaptation measures were put in place (see Hunt and Watkiss (2011) for a review on climate change impacts in cities).…”

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Assessing the economy-wide effects of climate change adaptation options of land transport systems in Austria

Bachner

2016

Reg Environ Change

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Due to climate change, transport systems are expected to become increasingly stressed by extreme weather and gradual climatic changes, resulting in direct costs within the affected sectors as well as indirect costs from sectoral interlinkages. To reduce these costs, sectorspecific climate change adaptation measures are needed, raising the question of the net benefits of adaptation at a macroeconomic level. However, despite their importance such assessments of impacts and adaptation at the macrolevel are scarce and coarse in their implementation. This paper contributes to fill this research gap by analyzing specific adaptation measures for the road and rail sectors in Austria using a computable general equilibrium model. The findings are as follows: First, direct impact costs more than double due to macroeconomic linkages. Hence, the indirect costs are found to be larger than the direct costs. Second, when analyzing adaptation measures for the road and rail sectors, without capturing any indirect effects, benefit-cost ratios imply a clear benefit only for the rail sector. However, when indirect effects via sectoral interlinkages are also captured, adaptation measures in both sectors, road and rail, clearly pay off. Climate change-induced GDP and welfare losses are reduced by 55 and 34% and lead to positive employment effects. Third, even at rather low damage reduction potentials, adaptation leads to a net benefit at the macroeconomic level.

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“…Pianc's environment committee published a review 2 years ago on the impact of climate change on waterborne transport (2008b) and this is discussed by Hawkes et al (2010) in this special issue.…”

Section: Dealing With Climate Changementioning

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Pianc: 125 years of promoting waterborne transport

Eede¹

2010

Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Civil Engin

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The World Association for Waterborne Transport Infrastructure – better known by its original acronym Pianc – celebrates its 125th anniversary in 2010, making it one of the world's oldest technical associations. It provides guidance for sustainable waterborne transport infrastructure for ports and waterways worldwide. This paper provides a brief overview of Pianc's history and accomplishments over the past one and a quarter centuries together with a review of its current roles and activities.

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Impacts of climate change on waterborne transport

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Adapting to the Impacts Posed by Climate Change: Applying the Climate Change Risk Indicator (CCRI) Framework in a Multi-Modal Transport System

Adapting to the Impacts Posed by Climate Change: Applying the Climate Change Risk Indicator (CCRI) Framework in a Multi-Modal Transport System

Assessing the economy-wide effects of climate change adaptation options of land transport systems in Austria

Pianc: 125 years of promoting waterborne transport

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