Port Cities, Pollution, and Public Health Environmental Health Issues from Shipping and Ports

Introduction

Mariantonia Lo Prete and César Ducruet                            

Part I: Mitigation and Perception of Port Pollution

1. Fostering Energy Transition and Transport Fluidity in European Port Cities

César Ducruet and Mariantonia Lo Prete                     

2. From a Polluting Port to a Sustainable One: A Pressing Challenge for Port Cities

Lorena Garcia-Alonso             

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

Julia Appercelle, Marie-Laure Baron, Olivier Bueno, Sophie Cros and Alicia Jacquette

4. Investigating Air Pollution-Induced Annoyance: A Case Study of a Coastal Urban Region in Brazil

Milena Machado, Severine Frère and Jane Meri Santos                         

5. Port Traffic and Chronic Diseases: Qualitative Study of Pilots and Dockworkers at the Port of Lomé

Hervé Sourya Malazoue

Part II: The Health Impacts of Ports in a Historical Perspective

6. Health Challenges in the Ports and Port Cities of Atlantic France (13^th–15^th Centuries)

Mathias Tranchant

7. Controlling Epidemics in Eighteenth-Century French Commercial Ports

Frédéric Davansant

8. Spatial Aspects of Quarantine in Port Cities until the 20^th Century

Sarah E. Hinman

9. Health and Disease in European Port Cities, ca. 1850 to 1930

Jörg Vögele and Grażyna Liczbińska

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

Daniele Contini and Eva Merico                                     

11. Maritime Traffic Specialization and Environmental Health Impacts in European Port Cities

César Ducruet, Mariantonia Lo Prete, Magali Dumontet, Barbara Polo Martin, Charbel Alkhoury, Ling Sun and Sheng Zhang

12. The Relationship between Maritime Transportation and Urban Health in China

Sheng Zhang, César Ducruet and Liehui Wang

13. Towards a Multilevel Port Performance Indicator Considering Economy, Environment, and Health

Charbel Alkhoury

14. The Impact of Chinese Ports on Cities' Air Pollution and Public Health

Ling Sun

Part IV: Governance and Policies

15. Seafarer Health Safety and Security Challenges in Global Shipping

Claude Comtois, Serge Novikov and Sarah Lutfy

16. Beyond Port Impacts: Quality of Life as a Framework for Port–City Governance

Sabah Zrari Djellid

17. ‘Collective Place Consciousness’, Coastal Grabbing, and the ‘Toxic Heritage’ in the Venetian Lagoon

Matteo Nicolini and Giuseppe Rigobello        

18. Legal Approach to Taking Public Health Issues into Account in Port Governance

Marine Chouquet, Mariantonia Lo Prete and Catherine Roche

19. The COVID-19 Pandemic and Port Resilience: The IAPH-WPSP Port Economic Impact Barometer as an Early Survey-Based Response

Theo Notteboom, Athanasios Pallis and Patrick Verhoeven                 

Afterword: A Value Case Approach for the Importance of Well-Being in Port City Territories

Carola Hein

Biography

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 (ULR 4477 TVES).

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.