sulphur content lower than 0.10% (below the 0.5% limit applicable on 1 January
2020)), could make a significant difference (UNCTAD 2019).
11.3 Systems Innovations Approach to Engage
Stakeholders in Co-designing and Implementing
Accordingly, ports are increasingly expected to align their performance with sustainability expectations, namely, to deliver optimum economic and social gains
while causing minimum environmental damage through the ecosystem services
approach (Boerema et al. 2017). As international trade and cargo volumes continue
to grow, ports around the globe are looking to new technologies to help manage
resources in a more sustainable and cost-effective manner through digitalization.
In view of the differences among ports and the changing nature of the environmental challenges that ports face, the establishment of an environmental management
system is considered of utmost importance. A systematic approach to environmental
management system enables the continuous identification of an individual port’s
priorities while it introduces a functional organisational structure that sets respective
targets, implements measures, monitors impact and evaluates, reviews and takes
corrective actions when and where necessary.To this effect, a methodology, the
Self Diagnosis Method, has been designed to assess the performance of the environmental management in sea ports (Dabra et al. 2004). In this way ports can achieve
and demonstrate continuous environmental improvement towards sustainability.
When it comes to the systems innovation, envisioning the desired future and
learning from that become necessary. Visioning and backcasting are two pillars of
the approach and should be done under a participatory approach. Since stakeholders
have radically different world views and different frames for understanding the
problem, you should incorporate their perspectives, even if they are wildly different
to your own. Because of the different stakeholders’ perspectives, they all have their
own priorities and agendas. Involving them in the backcasting process will allow
you to draw more than one plan from the same process. In complex and wicked
problems, as sustainability is, the problem definition might come to focus after
adopting a future vision. In such cases, the vision is the seed for the challenge and
not a consequence of it. Visioning should be a participatory tool in which a large
diversity of stakeholders ensures a richer and broader vision.
The adoption of new technologies in conjunction to the system innovation
approach could prevent reaching the point of an environmental crisis in the port.
This could be achieved through systematic and formal training of special scientists
regarding the alternatives towards environmental sustainability, working closely
with the practitioners to familiarise themselves with new technologies of controlling
emissions considering localities and idiosyncrasies, explore onshore power supply
(e.g. cold ironing) and consider it as an asset to be managed, better design pricing
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2020)), could make a significant difference (UNCTAD 2019).
11.3 Systems Innovations Approach to Engage
Stakeholders in Co-designing and Implementing
Accordingly, ports are increasingly expected to align their performance with sustainability expectations, namely, to deliver optimum economic and social gains
while causing minimum environmental damage through the ecosystem services
approach (Boerema et al. 2017). As international trade and cargo volumes continue
to grow, ports around the globe are looking to new technologies to help manage
resources in a more sustainable and cost-effective manner through digitalization.
In view of the differences among ports and the changing nature of the environmental challenges that ports face, the establishment of an environmental management
system is considered of utmost importance. A systematic approach to environmental
management system enables the continuous identification of an individual port’s
priorities while it introduces a functional organisational structure that sets respective
targets, implements measures, monitors impact and evaluates, reviews and takes
corrective actions when and where necessary.To this effect, a methodology, the
Self Diagnosis Method, has been designed to assess the performance of the environmental management in sea ports (Dabra et al. 2004). In this way ports can achieve
and demonstrate continuous environmental improvement towards sustainability.
When it comes to the systems innovation, envisioning the desired future and
learning from that become necessary. Visioning and backcasting are two pillars of
the approach and should be done under a participatory approach. Since stakeholders
have radically different world views and different frames for understanding the
problem, you should incorporate their perspectives, even if they are wildly different
to your own. Because of the different stakeholders’ perspectives, they all have their
own priorities and agendas. Involving them in the backcasting process will allow
you to draw more than one plan from the same process. In complex and wicked
problems, as sustainability is, the problem definition might come to focus after
adopting a future vision. In such cases, the vision is the seed for the challenge and
not a consequence of it. Visioning should be a participatory tool in which a large
diversity of stakeholders ensures a richer and broader vision.
The adoption of new technologies in conjunction to the system innovation
approach could prevent reaching the point of an environmental crisis in the port.
This could be achieved through systematic and formal training of special scientists
regarding the alternatives towards environmental sustainability, working closely
with the practitioners to familiarise themselves with new technologies of controlling
emissions considering localities and idiosyncrasies, explore onshore power supply
(e.g. cold ironing) and consider it as an asset to be managed, better design pricing
176
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