Environmental Security WENNING, R.J; APITZ, S.E.; BELLUCK, D.A. ...
Environmental Security in Harbors and Coastal Areas
Book Chapter
Within the past 5–10 years, several approaches and tools have emerged that may be useful for evaluating natural and human-made environmental vulnerabilities at chemical manufacturing plants, energy ...plants, transportation networks and other critical infrastructure located in heavily populated urban areas and coastal ports and harbors. The evaluation of the effectiveness of these approaches and tools in the current framework of environmental management is a crucial issue in order to verify the appropriateness of available techniques and methods and identify possible future needs to address environmental security. At the NATO Advanced Research Workshop, “Environmental Security at Ports, Harbors and Coastal Areas” held 17-21 April 2005, Thessalonica, Greece, a work group of international risk assessment, decision-making, environmental modeling and engineering experts from 11 countries explored the current state of different risk assessment and management tools and approaches for addressing environmental security in coastal ports and harbors. This chapter summarizes the findings of the work group and concludes with a summary of technical challenges and recommendations for future research.
