Shipping and the Environment Improving Environmental Performance in
This book focuses on the interaction between shipping and the natural environment and how shipping can strive to become more sustainable. Readers are guided in marine environmental awareness, environmental regulations and abatement technologies to assist
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Shipping and the Environment Improving Environmental Performance in Marine Transportation
Shipping and the Environment
Karin Andersson Selma Brynolf J. Fredrik Lindgren Magda Wilewska-Bien •
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Shipping and the Environment Improving Environmental Performance in Marine Transportation
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Editors Karin Andersson Shipping and Marine Technology Chalmers University of Technology Gothenburg Sweden
J. Fredrik Lindgren Shipping and Marine Technology Chalmers University of Technology Gothenburg Sweden
Selma Brynolf Shipping and Marine Technology Chalmers University of Technology Gothenburg Sweden
Magda Wilewska-Bien Shipping and Marine Technology Chalmers University of Technology Gothenburg Sweden
ISBN 978-3-662-49043-3 DOI 10.1007/978-3-662-49045-7
ISBN 978-3-662-49045-7
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Foreword
This book provides a timely and focused contribution to broader understanding of environmental impacts and pollution prevention measures of maritime transport. As a researcher and colleague in the interdisciplinary effort to help identify, characterise, and address compelling challenges with regard to maritime vessel operations, I thank the editors and commend the authors and contributors for their timely and carefully developed text. Readers may think I was invited to contribute this foreword because of two decades work pioneering research in several areas that are now mature enough to merit chapters in modern maritime texts such as these. Perhaps that explanation works. However, this foreword may also be considered as the reflections of a sailor, a merchant marine engineering officer, whose original training included how to operate very few devices designed primarily for pollution control. One of them
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