摘要: |
In 2018, the IAPH set up the World Ports Sustainability Program as a platform to help ports worldwide contribute to the UN SDGs. Those are based on the triple bottom line - economic, social, and environment - principle that Magali Geerts presented in this PhD dissertation as one of the best markers to operationalize sustainable development. Geerts' research, which won her a doctorate at the Free University of Brussels, Belgium, in 2020, will help ports adopt an integrated sustainability policy in line with the UN SDGs. Her work provides insight in the behavior of port authorities or port management bodies as they are referred to in the dissertation. The hybrid nature of port authorities makes them, in principle, well-placed to raise the sustainability performance of their ports, involving business and societal stakeholders. |