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This chapter provides an overview of the qualitative stage of this study, introducing the methods of data collection for oil port sustainability indicators and their analysis. The qualitative stage helps to validate and develop the research objective, linking theory and practice. This chapter further illustrates how the chosen methods of data collection and analysis techniques are used in this study in more depth, and introduces semi-structured interviews to collect data, and the thematic analysis of the data obtained. Practical oil port sustainability indicators that have been omitted from the theoretical framework are identified. The qualitative practical framework is the foundation of the quantitative phase and further prioritises the factors that make up the framework. In addition, these interviews enable the future development of the ‘must-have set’ of highly recommended factors generated by further comparison between the interviews, the AHP, and the MicMac results.
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Wang, X., Roe, M., Liu, S. (2020). A Qualitative Analysis of Oil Port Sustainability Frameworks. In: The Sustainability of Oil Ports. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-41520-4_4
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