Sustainable Aviation (eBook)

Greening the Flight Path

Thomas Walker, Angela Stefania Bergantino, Northrop Sprung-Much, Luisa Loiacono (Herausgeber)

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2019 | 1. Auflage
XVIII, 321 Seiten
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-3-030-28661-3 (ISBN)

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This book highlights the latest research in the field of Sustainable Aviation. In recent decades, there have been considerable improvements in aircraft efficiency and noise reduction. However, with the demand for both passenger and freight transportation expected to increase significantly in future years, the aviation sector is becoming a growing source of environmental problems and a major contributor to global warming.

Focusing on the need to address this mounting problem, this book discusses important new trends and outlines likely future developments in carbon emission reduction, carbon trading, and the impact of emerging technologies, as well as social, legal, and regulatory changes as they pertain to the aviation sector. 

The book offers an invaluable reference guide for practitioners, regulators, academics, and students alike, in fields ranging from business and engineering to the social sciences. It can be used as a textbook, and will benefit anyone interested in the future of aviation and our planet.

Thomas Walker is Full Professor of Finance at Concordia University, Canada. Having worked for various international firms, he is an active consultant and has published more than 50 journal articles and books.

Angela Stefania Bergantino is Full Professor of Transport Economics at the University of Bari, Italy. She is an active consultant and has authored over 50 peer-reviewed articles on public economics, transport economics, and regulatory issues.

Northrop Sprung-Much is a Ph.D. candidate in Finance at the John Molson School of Business, Concordia University, Canada. His main research interests are in risk management, carbon trading, and environmental economics.

Luisa Loiacono holds a Master of Science in Management from the University of Bari, Italy and a Master in Green Management from Bocconi University, Italy. Her research interests include carbon trading, environmental politics, and sustainable aviation.

Inhalt

Sustainable Aviation 1
Preface and Acknowledgements 5
Contents 7
Editors and Contributors 9
List of Figures 14
List of Tables 16
Chapter 1 Recent Developments in Sustainable Aviation: An Overview 18
Chapter 2 Sustaining Flight: Comprehension, Assessment, and Certification of Sustainability in Aviation 23
References 43
Chapter 3 Boulding, Brundtland, Economics, and Efforts to Integrate Air Transportation Policies into Sustainable Development 45
1 Introduction 46
2 Ideas of Sustainable Development 48
3 “Brundtland” and Its Immediate Aftermath 51
4 Where Does Air Transportation Fit into Sustainable Development? 52
5 A Positive Role for Markets? 55
6 Possible Economic Instruments for Sustainable Development 57
6.1 Trade-Offs in Objectives 58
6.2 Dealing with Keynes’ “We Are All All-Dead” Problem 58
6.3 Marketable and Tradable Permits 60
6.4 Pigouvian Taxes and Subsidies 62
6.5 What Are the Implications of All This? 63
7 The Challenges of Government and Governance 64
8 Conclusions 66
References 67
Chapter 4 Environmentally Sustainable Air Transport: A Focus on Airline Productivity 71
1 Background and Context 71
2 Aim of the Research 75
3 Methodology 75
3.1 The Biennial Malmquist–Luenberger Index 76
3.2 The Production Process 81
3.3 Data Collection 81
4 Data Trends 83
5 Results and Discussion 88
6 Conclusions 91
References 93
Chapter 5 The Analysis of the Sustainability Commitment Formulation and Implementation for the Selected Airlines 94
1 Introduction 94
2 Environmental Management Systems for Transport Facilities 95
3 The Rating of Air Transportation Impacts on the Environment 99
4 Method of Analysis 101
5 Analysis of Environmental Policies of the Selected European and World Airlines in Europe 104
6 Discussions 111
7 Conclusions 113
References 114
Chapter 6 Environmental Policies in European Aviation: A Stakeholder Management Perspective 116
1 Introduction 116
2 EU ETS in Aviation and SES: An Overview 119
2.1 EU ETS in Aviation 119
2.2 Single European Sky 122
3 Empirical Methodology 124
4 Discussion and Results 126
4.1 Key Stakeholders 126
4.1.1 Organisations and Institutions 126
4.1.2 Airspace Users 127
4.1.3 Air Navigation Service Providers (ANSPs) 128
5 Emerging Transaction Costs in SES and EU ETS 128
5.1 Transaction Costs in SES 128
5.2 Transaction Costs in EU ETS 129
5.3 Stakeholder Power vs. Interest Grid in SES and EU ETS 131
5.4 Policy Interaction and Stakeholder Management 134
6 Summary and Conclusions 136
References 137
Chapter 7 Market-Based Measures: The European Union Emission Trading Scheme and the Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation 141
1 Introduction 141
2 The European Union Emission Trading System 142
2.1 The Aviation European Union Emission Trading System 144
3 The European Energy Exchange and the Intercontinental Commodity Exchange 149
4 The European Union Transaction Log 155
5 The Model 157
6 Conclusions 162
References 164
Chapter 8 Impact of Air Transport on the Noise Level in the City of Sofia 165
1 Introduction 165
2 Literature Review 167
3 Aircraft Noise and Humans 168
4 Studies Concerning Aircraft Noise 170
4.1 Human Studies 170
5 Noise Effects on Wild Animals 171
6 Overview of Airports in Bulgaria 172
7 Data and Methods 174
8 Results 177
8.1 Noise Pollution 177
8.2 Regression Model with Dependent Variable Twenty-Four-Hour Average Equivalent Level of Cumulative Noise 178
8.3 Regression Model with Dependent Variable Twenty-Four-Hour Average Equivalent Level of Noise Due to Flights 178
9 Discussion and Mechanisms to Reduce Aircraft Noise 179
10 Conclusion 181
References 182
Chapter 9 Social Dimensions of Aviation on Sustainable Development 186
1 Introduction 186
2 Sustainable Development Dimensions 187
3 Review of Key Sustainable Development Goals Subject to Aviation 189
4 Demand and Supply Variables for Aviation Sustainable Development 190
5 The Social Dimension of Aviation Sustainable Development 193
6 Driving Aviation Social Dimension on Sustainable Development Through Human Development and Welfare 194
7 Aviation Social Regulation and Protection Principles Towards Sustainable Development 196
8 Airport Social Dimension on Sustainable Development Key Qualitative Indicators 197
9 Methodology Framework for Airports Social Dimension Qualitative Indicators Evaluation 200
10 Conclusions 200
References 201
Chapter 10 An Element-by-Element Approach for a Holistic Estimation of the Airport Carbon Footprint 205
1 Introduction 205
2 Description of the Element-by-Element Approach 208
3 Airport Transport Function and Related Activities Generating Carbon Emissions 211
4 Application of the EbE Approach to Aircraft-Related Activities 216
5 Discussion and Conclusions 221
References 224
Chapter 11 Can Laboratory Experiments Help in Evaluating Emission Trading Schemes? A Pilot Experiment on Aviation Allowances: Lessons to Be Learned 227
1 Introduction 227
2 The Environment and Experimental Methods of Analysis 229
2.1 Methodologies and Some Cases of Analysis 229
2.2 The Environmental Regulatory Measures: The ETS 232
3 Experimental Rules 234
3.1 Our Experiment 235
3.2 Making the Experiment Understandable 236
3.3 The Importance of Payment and “Counterweight” 237
3.4 Quantity of Data Collection for Each Experimental Type 238
3.5 Pilot Experiment 241
4 The Experimental Design 241
5 The Results 247
6 Conclusions 251
References 252
Chapter 12 Milestone of Greening the Flight Path: Alternative Fuels 255
1 Are Biofuels Capable of Replacing Fossil Fuels? 257
2 Alternative Fuel Test Steps 261
3 Conclusions 261
4 Remark 262
References 262
Chapter 13 External Benefits of Smart Payment Tools for Airport Train Services 266
1 Introduction 266
2 The Effects of a New Payment System 267
2.1 The Increase in Cost Efficiency and Time Savings 267
2.2 Additional Non-quantifiable Benefits 270
3 The Cost-Benefit Analysis Methodology 271
4 The Case of Malpensa Express 275
4.1 Project Description 275
4.2 Demand Estimates and Evaluation of Externalities 276
4.3 Project Appraisal 282
5 Conclusions 285
References 286
Chapter 14 Sustainable Alternative Air Transport Technologies 288
1 Introduction 288
2 Aircraft Classification 289
3 ICAO Noise and CO2 Standards 292
3.1 ICAO Noise Standard 292
3.2 ICAO CO2 Standard 294
4 Cargo Drones 296
4.1 Sustainability and Regulation of Cargo Drones 299
5 Solar and (Hybrid-) Electric Flight 301
5.1 Sustainability and Regulation of (Hybrid-) Electric Aircraft 304
6 High-Altitude (Supersonic) Flight 306
6.1 Sustainability and Regulation of High-Altitude (Supersonic) Flight 309
7 Conclusion 311
References 312
Index 318

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.10.2019
• Zusatzinfo: XVIII, 310 p. 33 illus., 23 illus. in color.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft
• Schlagworte: alternative technologies • Climate resilience • Environmental Geography • Environmental Management • Environmental sustainability • sustainability • Sustainability Management • Sustainable aviation • sustainable development • Sustainable Transport
• ISBN-10: 3-030-28661-4 / 3030286614
• ISBN-13: 978-3-030-28661-3 / 9783030286613