Oil Spill Modeling Aiming at the Protection of Ports and Coastal Areas

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THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE WATER FRAMEWORK DIRECTIVE 2000/60/EC IN HELLENIC PORTS

Η Κοινοτική Οδηγία Πλαίσιο για το Νερό (Water Framework Directive-WFD) θέτει για πρώτη φορά ένα λεπτομερές και ολοκληρωμένο πλέγμα προστασίας και διαχείρισης όλων των ευρωπαϊκών υδάτινων πόρων και οικοσυστημάτων. Στο ανωτέρω πλαίσιο εμπλέκεται και η λειτουργία των λιμενικών εγκαταστάσεων, μέσω του πλήθους των δραστηριοτήτων και υπηρεσιών που ενσωματώνει. Η διερεύνηση της εμπλοκής του λιμενικού τομέα στις διαβουλεύσεις για την εφαρμογή της Οδηγίας, η αναγνώριση των πηγών φόρτισης στις λιμενικές εγκαταστάσεις, η αξιολόγηση των πιέσεων και επιπτώσεων τους, η διαδικασία παρακολούθησης της κατάστασης των νερών και ο καταρτισμός των μέτρων ανταπόκρισης αποτελούν ζητήματα που ενδιαφέρουν τον λιμενικό τομέα, και πρέπει να ληφθούν υπόψη κατά την εφαρμογή της Οδηγίας.The Water Framework Directive (WFD) is a wide-ranging and challenging European Environmental Directive setting out for the first time a detailed and integrated framework for the improved protection and management of all of Europe’s water resources and aquatic environments. The investigation of the involvement of port sector at the consultations for the implementation of the Directive, the detection of sources that effect port facilities, the evaluation of effects and of their impacts, the process of water status monitoring and the development of response-facing measures, are issues that interest the port sector and should be considered during the implementation of the Directive

The "chain" management of ship-generated waste and cargo residues in the port of Thessaloniki

According to the Directive 2000/59/EC all European ports should prepare a "plan", describing the management process applied for the reception of ships' generated waste and cargo residues. The "plan" should comply with the modern scientific requirements of environmental protection, taking also into account the existing legislative framework and the international competitive environment, thus requiring a systematic approach where many parameters must be considered. This paper describes the methodological approach applied in the port of Thessaloniki, resulting to a sustainable "plan" and in addition its implementation process, after the appointment of a contractor for the ships' waste management. The management process described reveals the involvement of the various organizations and authorities, outlines the environmental legislative framework that should be applied to all Greek ports and identifies challenges for further improvemen

Seismic hazard assessment for the protection of cultural heritage in Greece: Methodological approaches for national and local scale assessment (pilot areas of Aighio, Kalamata and Heraklion)

The rich Greek cultural heritage has been always threatened by the intense seismic activity in the broader Aegean region. The objective of the presented project is to develop an integrated tool for the engineers in order to protect the Greek monuments, museums and archaeological sites against strong earthquakes. In order to achieve this goal a GIS-based database was developed with a bidirectional purpose: to collect and combine all necessary data about the monuments and their regional geological and seismotectonic conditions and to assess seismic hazard for each and every monument using the most modern techniques. In this paper we present the structure and development of our database, we propose a methodological procedure for estimating seismic hazard in Greece which will be the basis for the structural assessment of historical structures. The preliminary results show that the estimated values of maximum ground acceleration are quite high for areas in close proximity with large faults, especially when combined with loose ground conditions. Therefore an update of the protection code would be necessary. Subsequently the estimated values of maximum ground acceleration have been applied to three cases of monuments for the determination of the most vulnerable parts of the structure and the verification of the observed pathology. © 2017 by Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia. All rights reserved