Toward Sustainability: Airport Risk Assessment
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Transportation".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2021) | Viewed by 36901
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Interests: road pavements; road materials; cement concrete; environmental impacts; risk analysis; tunnel lighting
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
According to the Brundtland report, the concept of sustainability is broadly acknowledged as being multidimensional: It concerns all present human activities that could interfere with needs of future generations. The attention to sustainability-related issues has grown fast in recent decades: The transition from development concepts exclusively linked to economic growth, to ones which balance economic, environmental, and social issues is still on-going. Indeed, the experience to date reveals the importance of implementing this approach in the aviation sector and assessing its externalities in order to pursue different, often conflicting goals.
Therefore, the concept of “risk assessment” implemented to airport sustainability includes environmental models to assess atmosphere emissions and identify low-impact techniques; procedures to increase users and workers safety; strategies to manage the traffic demand for a given service level; risk analyses in the internal or surrounding areas in order to prevent and minimize the mechanical, social, and economical consequences of accidents; studies on innovative, “green” materials; technology challenges for energy efficiency in aircraft, landside, and airside environments; promotion trade, and contribution to accessibility and connectivity; all analyses aimed at pursuing sustainable development challenges.
This Special Issue, entitled “Toward Sustainability: Airport Risk Assessment”, addresses the most important topics in these very frontiers and the way they could be implemented.
Prof. Laura Moretti
Prof. Maria Vittoria Corazza
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Sustainable air transport
- Environmental impact
- Airport capacity
- Social externalities
- Risk analysis
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