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Shipping and the Environment

Improving Environmental Performance in Marine Transportation

  • 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)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxiii
  2. Introduction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Shipping and the Environment

      • Karin Andersson, Francesco Baldi, Selma Brynolf, J. Fredrik Lindgren, Lena Granhag, Erik Svensson
      Pages 3-27
    3. The Natural Environment and Human Impacts

      • J. Fredrik Lindgren, Kent Salo, Selma Brynolf, Karin Andersson, Erik Svensson, Maria Zetterdahl et al.
      Pages 29-74
    4. Regulating Pollution from Ships

      • Philip Linné, Erik Svensson
      Pages 75-121
  3. Environmental Impacts

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 123-123
    2. Discharges to the Sea

      • J. Fredrik Lindgren, Magda Wilewska-Bien, Lena Granhag, Karin Andersson, K. Martin Eriksson
      Pages 125-168
    3. Emissions to the Air

      • Kent Salo, Maria Zetterdahl, Hannes Johnson, Erik Svensson, Mathias Magnusson, Cecilia Gabrielii et al.
      Pages 169-227
    4. Anthropogenic Noise

      • J. Fredrik Lindgren, Magda Wilewska-Bien
      Pages 229-235
    5. Infrastructure, Marine Spatial Planning and Shipwrecks

      • J. Fredrik Lindgren, Karin Andersson, Hanna Landquist
      Pages 237-253
  4. Pollution Prevention Measures

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 255-255
    2. Environmental Management

      • Karin Andersson
      Pages 257-263
    3. Methods and Tools for Environmental Assessment

      • Karin Andersson, Selma Brynolf, Hanna Landquist, Erik Svensson
      Pages 265-293
    4. Energy Efficiency and Fuel Changes to Reduce Environmental Impacts

      • Selma Brynolf, Francesco Baldi, Hannes Johnson
      Pages 295-339
    5. Measures to Reduce Discharges and Emissions

      • Magda Wilewska-Bien, J. Fredrik Lindgren, Mathias Magnusson, Maria Zetterdahl, Kent Salo, Cecilia Gabrielii et al.
      Pages 341-396
  5. Outlook

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 397-397
    2. Improving Environmental Performance in Shipping

      • Selma Brynolf, J. Fredrik Lindgren, Karin Andersson, Magda Wilewska-Bien, Francesco Baldi, Lena Granhag et al.
      Pages 399-418
  6. Back Matter

    Pages 419-426

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

  • Shipping and Marine Technology, Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg, Sweden

    Karin Andersson, Selma Brynolf, J. Fredrik Lindgren, Magda Wilewska-Bien

About the editors

Karin Andersson, Professor, PhD is professor in Maritime Environment at the department of Shipping and Marine Technology, Chalmers University of Technol-ogy since 2009. Her scientific background is in Chemical Engineering (MSc, KTH 1975), Nuclear Chemistry (PhD, Chalmers 1983) and archaeology. After seven years as a consultant and researcher in environmental systems analysis, she was one of the founders of the research group for Environmental Systems Analysis at Chalmers in 1990. This group has been developing master’s courses in environ-ment/sustainable development and was pioneer in research on Life Cycle Assess-ment (LCA) in Sweden. In the mid 1990´ies a national competence centre, CPM (now Swedish Life Cycle Center) with participation of more than 10 large Swedish companies was started with the group as host. Karin was also a vice president at Chalmers 2004-2007. Present research interests focuses on decrease of environmental impact and resource use by the technical systems in shipping.
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

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Softcover Book USD 169.99
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  • Durable hardcover edition
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