| Abstract | 第5-7页 |
| 摘要 | 第8-19页 |
| 1 Introduction | 第19-35页 |
| 1.1 Research background and significance | 第19-24页 |
| 1.1.1 Tendencies in international container transportation and its environmentaleffects | 第20-21页 |
| 1.1.2 Carbon footprinting at container seaport areas | 第21-24页 |
| 1.2 Domestic and overseas development progress | 第24-31页 |
| 1.2.1 The experience of carbon footprinting in Chinese seaports | 第24-27页 |
| 1.2.2 Seaports and international organizations practice in carbon footprintdevelopment | 第27-31页 |
| 1.3 Dissertation objectives and significance | 第31-32页 |
| 1.4 Major contents and methodology of dissertation | 第32-35页 |
| 2 Literature Review | 第35-58页 |
| 2.1 Different scopes of carbon footprinting | 第36-40页 |
| 2.1.1 Carbon footprinting in the concept of low-carbon economy | 第36-38页 |
| 2.1.2 Industrial greenhouse gas emissions | 第38页 |
| 2.1.3 Sustainable supply chains and green logistics | 第38-40页 |
| 2.2 Ecological problems of the international multimodal transportation | 第40-44页 |
| 2.2.1 International maritime transportation environmental pressure | 第40-41页 |
| 2.2.2 Multimodal, intermodal and one mode transportation | 第41-42页 |
| 2.2.3 Road transportation | 第42-44页 |
| 2.3 Problem solution approaches | 第44-54页 |
| 2.3.1 Container port system-areas and operations | 第44-47页 |
| 2.3.2 Integrated frameworks construction | 第47-48页 |
| 2.3.3 System dynamics application | 第48-50页 |
| 2.3.4 Using case studies for container seaport investigation | 第50-54页 |
| 2.4 Comments on the current research | 第54-58页 |
| 3 Methodology | 第58-72页 |
| 3.1 Container seaport systematic representation | 第59-63页 |
| 3.1.1 Container seaport system components | 第59页 |
| 3.1.2 Container port operations | 第59-61页 |
| 3.1.3 Container seaport managerial levels | 第61-63页 |
| 3.2 Quantitative methods for emissions estimation | 第63-68页 |
| 3.2.1 Emissions inventories | 第64-65页 |
| 3.2.2 General scientific paradigms in the emissions estimation | 第65-68页 |
| 3.3 System dynamics approach | 第68-70页 |
| 3.3.1 General aspects of system dynamics theory | 第68-69页 |
| 3.3.2 Application of system dynamics method in transportation research | 第69-70页 |
| 3.4 Case study method | 第70-71页 |
| 3.5 Summary | 第71-72页 |
| 4 The Environmental Effects of Container Seaport Operations on the Coastal Areas | 第72-96页 |
| 4.1 The interaction of container seaport activities and coastal cities environmentalpollution | 第72-79页 |
| 4.1.1 Coastal cities environmental pollution | 第73-75页 |
| 4.1.2 The paradigm shift in urban and port sustainable development | 第75-78页 |
| 4.1.3 The influence of container seaport activities on the coastal area environment | 第78-79页 |
| 4.2 Landside emission sources structure and estimating methodologies | 第79-82页 |
| 4.3 The estimation of Qingdao Port (China) landside emissions | 第82-95页 |
| 4.3.1 The investigation of low-carbon development in China | 第82-88页 |
| 4.3.2 Qingdao city and port introduction | 第88-90页 |
| 4.3.3 Qingdao port landside emissions estimation results and analysis | 第90-95页 |
| 4.4 Summary | 第95-96页 |
| 5 The Integrated Framework for Carbon Footprinting Estimation and Mitigation | 第96-140页 |
| 5.1 Carbon emissions estimation | 第96-102页 |
| 5.1.1 Emissions inventories | 第96-99页 |
| 5.1.2 International organizations documents for carbon footprinting | 第99-102页 |
| 5.2 Container seaport emissions estimation and mitigation | 第102-120页 |
| 5.2.1 Container seaport emissions estimation approaches | 第102-112页 |
| 5.2.2 Container seaport emissions mitigation strategies | 第112-120页 |
| 5.3 The integrated framework for Qingdao Port carbon footprinting | 第120-139页 |
| 5.3.1 The integrated framework architecture | 第123-130页 |
| 5.3.2 The application of the integrated framework for Qingdao Port area | 第130-139页 |
| 5.4 Summary | 第139-140页 |
| 6 A System Dynamics Model for Carbon Footprinting at the Container Seaport Area | 第140-159页 |
| 6.1 The application of system dynamics theory for port investigation | 第140-142页 |
| 6.2 System dynamics model architecture | 第142-148页 |
| 6.3 System dynamics model scenarios simulation and results | 第148-157页 |
| 6.3.1 Qingdao port environmental projects | 第149-150页 |
| 6.3.2 Simulation scenarios results and analysis | 第150-157页 |
| 6.4 Summary | 第157-159页 |
| 7 Conclusions | 第159-163页 |
| 7.1 Achievements and results | 第159页 |
| 7.2 Thesis innovations | 第159-161页 |
| 7.3 Future research development | 第161-163页 |
| References | 第163-184页 |
| Research Projects and Publications during PhD Period | 第184-185页 |
| Acknowledgement | 第185-186页 |
| Curriculum Vitae | 第186-187页 |
