Dissecting climate adaptation strategies and planning of ports from different theoretical angles

NG, Adolf K.Y. and POO, Mark C.P. and WANG, Tianni and BECKER, Austin and LAU, Yui-yip and XU, Tina Ziting and YANG, Zaili (2025) Dissecting climate adaptation strategies and planning of ports from different theoretical angles. Transport Economics and Management, 3. pp. 46-56. ISSN 2949-8996

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Abstract

As the key nodes of globalization and international business, ports are exposed to the impacts of climate change, mainly because of their locations, including low-lying areas, coastal zones, and deltas. While there is increasing research on climate adaptation strategies and planning of ports, there is a lack of works that explain how scholars address the topic from different theoretical angles. This paper fills this gap by dissecting climate adaptation strategies and planning of ports from four main perspectives, including institutional systems, path dependence, supply chain risk management, and stakeholder management. It is a germane reminder to port decision-makers that effective climate adaptation is not limited to engineering technicalities but is an ideological issue that requires shifting existing political, economic, and social paradigms. Towards the end, we propose a process of effective adaptation planning to climate change impacts by ports.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information and Comments:	© 2025 The Author(s). This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
Faculty / Department:	Faculty of Business, Law and Criminology > Liverpool Hope Business School
Depositing User:	Ching Pong Poo
Date Deposited:	26 Feb 2025 11:55
Last Modified:	26 Feb 2025 11:55
URI:	https://hira.hope.ac.uk/id/eprint/4625

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