Overview
Comprehensive guide to marine environmental awareness
All environmental aspects of shipping covered in one book
A special chapter about energy efficiency and fuels
A special chapter dedicated to the basics of regulating pollution from ships
Helps the reader to make deliberate decisions towards sustainable shipping
Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Front Matter
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Environmental Impacts
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Pollution Prevention Measures
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Outlook
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book focuses on the interaction between shipping and the natural environment and how shipping can strive to become more sustainable. Readers are guided in marine environmental awareness, environmental regulations and abatement technologies to assist in decisions on strategy, policy and investments.
You will get familiar with possible paths to improve environmental performance and, in the long term, to a sustainable shipping sector, based on an understanding of the sources and mechanisms of common impacts. You will also gain knowledge on emissions and discharges from ships, prevention measures, environmental regulations, and methods and tools for environmental assessment. In addition, the book includes a chapter on the background to regulating pollution from ships.
It is intended as a source of information for professionals connected to maritime activities as well as policy makers and interested public. It is also intended as a textbook in higher education academic programmes.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Selma Brynolf, PhD is a researcher at the Department of Shipping and Marine Technology and the Department of Energy and Environment at Chalmers Univer-sity of Technology conducting research about the global energy system with focus on shipping and marine fuels. She received her Master of Science in Industrial Ecol-ogy in 2009. After her master of science she started Ph.D. at the Department of Shipping and Marine Technology at Chalmers University of Technology. The re-searched involved environmental assessment of present and potential future marine fuels and she earned her Ph.D. degree in 2014. She has published papers within the area of marine fuels, life cycle assessment and global energy system modelling.
J. Fredrik Lindgren, PhD is a researcher at the Department of Shipping and Ma-rine Technology at Chalmers University of Technology. He studied marine biology at the Department of Marine Ecology, University of Gothenburg and received his Master of Science degree in 2003, doing work related to the settlement of barnacle larvas and the development of non-toxic antifouling paints. After his master of sci-ence he continued to work in this area, before starting his doctoral studies. There he studied ecotoxicological effects of small but frequent oil spills and factors that can influence the effects of the spills, earning his Ph.D. degree in 2015. He has published papers within the areas of marine biofouling, risk assessment, and ecotoxicology of oil.
Magda Wilewska-Bien, Lic. Tech. is a PhD student at the Department of Shipping and Marine Technology at Chalmers University of Technology. She received Lic. Tech. degree in Environmental Inorganic Chemistry in 2004 and Master of Science degree studying programme Applied Environmental Measurement Techniques. She maintains a professional interest in environmental science and in particular management of wastes.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Shipping and the Environment
Book Subtitle: Improving Environmental Performance in Marine Transportation
Editors: Karin Andersson, Selma Brynolf, J. Fredrik Lindgren, Magda Wilewska-Bien
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-49045-7
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-662-49043-3Published: 02 March 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-56971-9Published: 07 April 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-662-49045-7Published: 23 February 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 426
Number of Illustrations: 28 b/w illustrations, 49 illustrations in colour
Topics: Marine & Freshwater Sciences