TY - JOUR T1 - Maritime transportation: Let's slow down a bit A1 - Sèbe,Maxime A1 - Scemama,Pierre A1 - Choquet,Anne A1 - Jung,Jean-Luc A1 - Chircop,Aldo A1 - Razouk,Phénia Marras-Aït A1 - Michel,Sylvain A1 - Stiger-Pouvreau,Valerie A1 - Recuero-Virto,Laura AD - Centre de Recherche en Gestion, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, France AD - Aix Marseille Univ., Université de Toulon, CNRS, IRD, MIO UM 110, Marseille, France AD - Unité d'Economie Maritime, UMR 6308 AMURE, Ifremer, Univ Brest, CNRS, IUEM, Plouzané, France AD - Brest Business School, Brest, France AD - Univ Brest, Ifremer, CNRS, UMR 6308, AMURE, IUEM, Plouzané, France AD - Univ Brest, Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, Institut de Systématique Evolution Biodiversité (ISYEB, UMR7205), Brest, France AD - Canada Research Chair in Maritime Law and Policy, Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada AD - French Agency for Biodiversity, AFB, Le Nadar Hall C, 5 allée Felix Nadar, Vincennes, France AD - Univ Brest, CNRS, IRD, Ifremer, LEMAR, Plouzané, France UR - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.152262 DO - 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.152262 KW - Ship KW - Speed reduction KW - Collision KW - Underwater noise KW - Invasive species KW - Gas emission N2 - Maritime transportation is a major contributor to the world economy, but has significant social and environmental impacts. Each impact calls for different technical or operational solutions. Amongst these solutions, we found that speed reduction measures appear to mitigate several issues: (1) collision with wildlife; (2) collision with non-living objects; (3) underwater noise; (4) invasive species; and (5) gas emission. We do not pretend that speed reduction is the best solution for each individual issue mentioned in this paper, but we argue that it could be a key solution to significantly reduce these threats all together. Further interdisciplinary research is required to balance private economic costs of speed reduction measures with environmental and social benefits emerging from all mitigated issues. Y1 - 2022/03 PB - Elsevier BV JF - Science Of The Total Environment SN - 0048-9697 VL - 811 ID - 85168 ER -