Issue |
E3S Web Conf.
Volume 436, 2023
4th International Conference on Environmental Design (ICED2023)
|
|
---|---|---|
Article Number | 05003 | |
Number of page(s) | 6 | |
Section | Entreprises - Environmental Economics - Circular Economy | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/202343605003 | |
Published online | 11 October 2023 |
Impacts of the shipbuilding industry on the ecosystem services and the challenges for a sustainable blue economy: Case study of a coastal ecosystem in the Eastern Mediterranean
Department of Maritime Studies, University of Piraeus, 18543 Piraeus, Greece
* Corresponding author: anthpour@gmail.org
Blue Economy includes all economic activities that take place in the ocean, sea and coastal areas. Despite their importance and continuous growth, the blue economy activities have serious impacts on the marine and coastal environment. A sustainable blue economy preserves social cohesion, promotes environmental protection and produces economic growth. Shipbuilding is one of the main blue economy sectors, covering the construction of the cargo, passenger, military and research fleet and its maintenance. The shipbuilding sector is important for the EU economy, in terms of economic development, employment and support of the supply chain. The last years, the shipbuilding and repair industry of Greece is reborn, with a respected number of shipyards to increase their activities. The shipbuilding activities belong to the so called “heavy” industries, creating significant environmental pressures to the coastal ecosystem, that affect a series of ecosystem services. Case study of this research is the Gulf of Elefsis, a vulnerable ecosystem facing the impacts of the industrial activities of shipbuilding and repair, and the environmental problems that occur. The present study is an attempt to spot the ecosystem services that are threatened by the shipbuilding industry and to propose the appropriate measures and responses to face the existing pressures.
© The Authors, published by EDP Sciences, 2023
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Current usage metrics show cumulative count of Article Views (full-text article views including HTML views, PDF and ePub downloads, according to the available data) and Abstracts Views on Vision4Press platform.
Data correspond to usage on the plateform after 2015. The current usage metrics is available 48-96 hours after online publication and is updated daily on week days.
Initial download of the metrics may take a while.