TY - JOUR
T1 - The climate change strategies of seaports: Mitigation vs. adaptation
AU - Jiang, Changmin
AU - Zheng, Shiyuan
AU - Ng, Adolf K.Y.
AU - Ge, Ying En
AU - Fu, Xiaowen
N1 - Funding Information:
Financial supports from the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC 435-2017-0728 , 430-2019-00725 ) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant: 71803131 , 71671110 ) are gratefully acknowledged. Thanks are also given to the Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality (Grant No.: 17040501800 ). The authors also feel grateful for the support of the Lloyd’s Register Foundation, a charity that helps to protect life and property by supporting engineering-related education, public engagement, and the application of research, via Grant # G\100111.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 Elsevier Ltd
PY - 2020/12
Y1 - 2020/12
N2 - The two major approaches that seaport operators adopt to address climate change impacts are mitigation (CCM), i.e., reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and adaptation (CCA), i.e., adjusting the facility to moderate the negative outcomes of climate change. This paper is among the first to construct an economic model to compare the impacts of CCM and CCA in affecting the outputs of the executing port and the other ports in its network, considering the effects of market interactions. We find that both strategies can increase the executing port's cargo traffic, and can either increase or decrease the other port's cargo traffic depending on the market relationships between the ports. We also implement a numerical case study on four Chinese ports (Ports of Shenzhen, Xiamen, Tianjin and Hong Kong) based on our model.
AB - The two major approaches that seaport operators adopt to address climate change impacts are mitigation (CCM), i.e., reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and adaptation (CCA), i.e., adjusting the facility to moderate the negative outcomes of climate change. This paper is among the first to construct an economic model to compare the impacts of CCM and CCA in affecting the outputs of the executing port and the other ports in its network, considering the effects of market interactions. We find that both strategies can increase the executing port's cargo traffic, and can either increase or decrease the other port's cargo traffic depending on the market relationships between the ports. We also implement a numerical case study on four Chinese ports (Ports of Shenzhen, Xiamen, Tianjin and Hong Kong) based on our model.
KW - Climate change adaptation
KW - Climate change mitigation
KW - Seaport
KW - Strategic complement
KW - Strategic substitute
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85095700116&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.trd.2020.102603
DO - 10.1016/j.trd.2020.102603
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:85095700116
SN - 1361-9209
VL - 89
JO - Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment
JF - Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment
M1 - 102603
ER -