Port Cities, Pollution, and Public Health

Environmental Health Issues from Shipping and Ports
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-041-07255-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 366 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 689 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Transport Analysis

Port cities of the world are critical nodes for international trade and socio-economic development. Yet they bear several costs, including congestion and pollution, which affect the local environment and population. In certain places, living near the port –together with related industrial and logistical activities –is a synonym of adverse health outcomes, resulting in several diseases and above-average unplanned hospital admissions and mortality. Decades of port-city physical separation have not eliminated such issues, since deep-water facilities, even outside urban cores, impact local populations and reach port and non-port cities through extensive trucking flows. Specific traffic, like cruise, keeps operating within dense urban environments.

This book is one of the first dedicated volumes on such matters, with contributions from scholars on several continents (Europe, Asia, the Americas, Africa, and Oceania). It is highly interdisciplinary, covering geography, history, economics, management sciences, regional science, sociology, public and comparative law, physics, energy and industrial engineering, urban and spatial planning, epidemiology, architecture, biology, and environmental sciences. This volume offers an overview of current environmental and health issues in port cities. It starts by presenting the mitigation and perception of port pollution. Next, it examines the health impacts of ports from a historical perspective and reviews and synthesizes the variety of existing approaches to measure the health impacts of ports and shipping. Finally, it proposes a reflection on multilevel governance and policies.

This book is a comprehensive resource for a wide readership, including academics and upper-level students interested in maritime transport, port management, and sustainability, as well as those in public management, planning, and governance.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lo Prete, Mariantonia

Ducruet, César

Fachgebiete

• Technische Wissenschaften Verkehrstechnik | Transportgewerbe Schiffbau, Seeverkehr
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Public Health, Gesundheitsmanagement, Gesundheitsökonomie, Gesundheitspolitik
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizinische Fachgebiete Umweltmedizin, Arbeitsmedizin, Tropenmedizin, Sportmedizin Umweltmedizin
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Transport- und Verkehrswirtschaft
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction  Part I: Mitigation and Perception of Port Pollution  1. Fostering Energy Transition and Transport Fluidity in European Port Cities  2. From a Polluting Port to a Sustainable One: A Pressing Challenge for Port Cities  3. Perception of the Impact of Port Pollution on the Health of its Population: The Case of the Cities of Le Havre and Rouen - Exploratory Study  4. Investigating Air Pollution-Induced Annoyance: A Case Study of a Coastal Urban Region in Brazil  5. Port Traffic and Chronic Diseases: Qualitative Study of Pilots and Dockworkers at the Port of Lomé  Part II: The Health Impacts of Ports in a Historical Perspective  6. Health Challenges in the Ports and Port Cities of Atlantic France (13th–15th Centuries)  7. Controlling Epidemics in Eighteenth-Century French Commercial Ports  8. Spatial Aspects of Quarantine in Port Cities until the 20th Century  9. Health and Disease in European Port Cities, ca. 1850 to 1930  Part III: Measuring the Health Impacts of Ports and Shipping  10. Impact of Shipping to Atmospheric Concentrations of Fine and Ultrafine Particles in Coastal Areas  11. Maritime Traffic Specialization and Environmental Health Impacts in European Port Cities  12. The Relationship between Maritime Transportation and Urban Health in China  13. Towards a Multilevel Port Performance Indicator Considering Economy, Environment, and Health  14. The Impact of Chinese Ports on Cities' Air Pollution and Public Health  Part IV: Governance and Policies  15. Seafarer Health Safety and Security Challenges in Global Shipping  16. Beyond Port Impacts: Quality of Life as a Framework for Port–City Governance  17. ‘Collective Place Consciousness’, Coastal Grabbing, and the ‘Toxic Heritage’ in the Venetian Lagoon  18. Legal Approach to Taking Public Health Issues into Account in Port Governance  19. The COVID-19 Pandemic and Port Resilience: The IAPH-WPSP Port Economic Impact Barometer as an Early Survey-Based Response Afterword: A Value Case Approach for the Importance of Well-Being in Port City Territories

Über Autor(innen)

Mariantonia Lo Prete is Assistant Professor in Coastal Planning and Port Geography at Dunkirk University (University of the Littoral Opal Coast - ULCO), France, and member of the research unit Territories, Cities, Environment and Society (TVES ULR 4477).

César Ducruet is Geographer and Senior Researcher at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), France. He is currently working at the EconomiX laboratory (Paris-Nanterre) on the local impact of contemporary maritime globalization.