stemming from near-port shipping activities, the handling of the goods in the ports and from the distribution of the goods to …, the Netherlands; Port Metro Vancouver, Canada; and Busan, Korea. The book provides examples of the environmental problems … related to port activities (such as air pollution and emissions of greenhouse gases, water pollution, noise, spread of …

Ports and cities are historically strongly linked, but the link between port and city growth has become weaker …. Economic benefits often spill over to other regions, whereas negative impacts are localised in the port-city. How can ports … regain their role as drivers of urban economic growth and how can negative port impacts be mitigated? Those are the questions …