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Supporting Informed Public Reactions during Shipping Incidents with Oil Spill Potential: The E-S.A.V.E Electronic Platform

Helen Thanopoulou
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Anastasia Patera
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Orestis Moresis
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Georgios Georgoulis
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Vicky Lioumi
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Athanasios Kanavos
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Orestis Papadimitriou
,
Vassilis Zervakis
,
Ioannis Dagkinis
Version 1 : Received: 28 July 2023 / Approved: 31 July 2023 / Online: 31 July 2023 (11:38:57 CEST)

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Thanopoulou, H.; Patera, A.; Moresis, O.; Georgoulis, G.; Lioumi, V.; Kanavos, A.; Papadimitriou, O.; Zervakis, V.; Dagkinis, I. Supporting Informed Public Reactions to Shipping Incidents with Oil Spill Potential: An Innovative Electronic Platform. Sustainability 2023, 15, 15035. Thanopoulou, H.; Patera, A.; Moresis, O.; Georgoulis, G.; Lioumi, V.; Kanavos, A.; Papadimitriou, O.; Zervakis, V.; Dagkinis, I. Supporting Informed Public Reactions to Shipping Incidents with Oil Spill Potential: An Innovative Electronic Platform. Sustainability 2023, 15, 15035.

Abstract

The analysis of the 2002 Prestige tanker accident showed how public misinformation can worsen marine pollution incidents, rendering their management suboptimal as these evolve, raising thus the issue of appropriately informing and educating coastal and island populations at risk. Two decades later, developments in electronic platforms, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), in Automatic Identification System (AIS) for ship signal transmission, and in social media, provide a set of means for public monitoring of such incidents, creating the possibility to antagonize effec-tively erroneous, or malevolent information which can hinder efficient actions for containing ma-rine pollution risks even without active training of populations concerned. The authors, in the framework of development of the Marine Coastal Observatory and Risk Management project “AEGIS+”, have developed E-S.A.V.E., an online platform which: a) meets the needs of different users as revealed by a survey run across groups of them, b) uses a suitable Geographic Infor-mation Systems (GIS) environment, c) cooperates with public authorities, for the reliable update of automated systems, and d) employs an artificial intelligence (AI) supported tool for social me-dia monitoring; the platform also provides educational and information national and interna-tional resources on marine environmental protection and sustainable maritime logistics.

Keywords

marine pollution; public awareness; electronic platforms; webGIS

Subject

Business, Economics and Management, Other

Copyright: This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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