The Blue Book: Smart sustainable coastal cities and blue growth strategies for marine and maritime environments

Foreword
Preface
Contents
Shipping and Ecology (Sustainability)
	1 Introduction
	2 Strategies to Emission Reduction
	3 New Technologies in Shipping Serving Sustainability
		3.1 Acceleration of Digitalization
		3.2 Virtualization and Automation Across the Life Cycle
		3.3 Toward Precision Materials
		3.4 Toward Future Transport and Logistics
		3.5 Toward Low Carbon Energy Systems
		3.6 Transition Drivers
		3.7 Transition Barriers
		3.8 Toward Wider Use of Ocean Space
		3.9 Ocean Health Under Severe Threat
		3.10 Impact on Maritime
		3.11 Impact on Oil and Gas
		3.12 Discussion and Conclusions
	References
Ocean Wildlife and Megafauna Protection
	1 Introduction
	2 Diversity of Ocean Wildlife
	3 Marine Megafauna: The Majesty of the Ocean Giants
		3.1 Ocean Dolphins: Intelligent and Social Marine Mammals
		3.2 Sea Turtle: Guardians of the Ocean
	4 Importance of Ocean Wildlife
	5 Threats to Ocean Wildlife
	6 Conservation of Ocean Wildlife and Marine Megafauna
	References
Big Data and Sustainable Applications for Healthy and Safe Coastal Cities
	1 Introduction
	2 Big Data in Healthcare
	3 Big Data-Driven Crisis Management
	4 Big Data in Maritime
	5 Big Data Management Infrastructures
	6 Conclusion
	References
Developing Housing at Sea: A Case for Humanitarian Assistance and Residency Vessels
	1 Introduction
	2 Residential Vessel Types and Use Cases
	3 Humanitarian Vessels
	4 Modern Humanitarian Vessel Projects
	5 Residency Vessels
	6 Blue Economy Benefits to Housing at Sea
	7 Operational Constraints and Considerations
	8 Limitations
	9 Conclusion
	References
Smart Coastal City Mobility Management in the Context of High Tourist Activity and Methodological Approaches
	1 Introduction
	2 State of the Art
	3 Coastal City Characterization and How It Becomes Smart
		3.1 Management of Circulation in the City, in the Harbor/Port, on the Sea
		3.2 Beaches and Sea
	4 Conceptual View
		4.1 Assistive System Role and Functions
		4.2 Mobility Assistive System Platform
		4.3 Data Identification and Dynamicity Management
		4.4 Data Collection and Elaboration
		4.5 Open Data
		4.6 Machine Learning and Deep Learning
		4.7 Data Model Structure and Access Management
	5 Design Methodology
		5.1 Design Approaches
		5.2 Case Studies: Smartification of a Coastal City
			5.2.1 Top-Down Approach: City Smartification
			5.2.2 Bottom-Up Approach: Emergency and Rescue Services
			5.2.3 Bottom-Up Approach: Traffic Management
			5.2.4 Pattern Use: Data for Beach Mobility
			5.2.5 Pattern Approach Based on Open Data: Information Shelter
			5.2.6 Pattern-Based Approach: Pedestrian Drive
			5.2.7 Add Extension: Boat Management
			5.2.8 Add Extension: Beach and Sea Mobilities
			5.2.9 Machine and Deep Learning Use
			5.2.10 Smart Services for Disables
	6 Conclusion
	References
Urban Climate and Heat Mitigation in Coastal Cities
	1 Introduction
	2 Climate of Coastal Cities: Interaction of Sea Breeze with Urban Heat Island Characteristics
	3 Heat Mitigation and Adaptation Techniques in Coastal Cities
	4 Impact of Heat Mitigation on the Energy Consumption, Health, Environmental Quality and Quality of Life
	5 Conclusions
	References
Sick Ships: A Discussion on Historical Cases and Optimization for the Future
	1 Introduction
		1.1 A Brief Historical Overview
	2 Safety and Health Onboard Ship
		2.1 Brief Case on Cruise Ships
	3 Blue Growth Strategy and the Value of Innovation
	4 Conclusion
	References
Disease Spread Control in Cruise Ships: Monitoring, Simulation, and Decision Making
	1 Introduction
	2 A Conceptual Closed-Loop Model for Disease Spread Control
	3 Disease Spread Monitoring
	4 Decision Making for Risk Assessment and Management
		4.1 Knowledge-Based Methods
		4.2 Machine Learning-Based Methods
		4.3 Hybrid Methods
		4.4 Risk Management
	5 Simulation of Disease Spread
		5.1 Airborne Transmission Modeling
		5.2 Waterborne Transmission Modeling
		5.3 Surface Transmission Modeling
	6 AI-Based Reduced-Order Modeling
	7 Research Challenges
	8 Conclusions
	References
Real-Time, Systematic Disease Detection on Cruise Ships: Feasibility Assessment for Outbreak Prevention
	1 Introduction
	2 Point-of-Care Diagnosis at the Health Center
	3 Real-Time, Systematic and Selective Disease Identification
		3.1 Smart Wearable Devices
		3.2 Cabin Monitoring
			3.2.1 Correlation of Symptoms
			3.2.2 Direct Disease Detection
		3.3 Summary of Individualized Disease Monitoring Solutions
	4 Conclusion and Prospects
	References
Technology Approaches for Cruise Ship Disease Propagation Monitoring
	1 Symptoms Detection
		1.1 Fever
			1.1.1 Thermal Camera-Based Screening
		1.2 Personal Wearable Health Data Access
		1.3 Respiratory Symptoms
		1.4 Digestive Symptoms
	2 Location of People
		2.1 Real Time
			2.1.1 Wi-Fi Indoor Positioning System
			2.1.2 BLE Indoor Positioning System
		2.2 Contact Tracing
	References
Scenarios for Sensors and Actuators Deployment to Prevent and Mitigate Epidemics on Cruise Ships
	1 Introduction
	2 High Level S&A Requirements
		2.1 Outbreak-Related Requirements
		2.2 Business Requirements
	3 Ship Integration Constraints
		3.1 Overview
		3.2 Piping Systems
		3.3 Gray and Black Water Piping System
		3.4 HVAC System
	4 State of the Art for S&A for Epidemic Management on Cruise Ships
		4.1 The Internet of Ships
		4.2 Healthcare S&A: Applicability to Ships?
	5 HS4U Scenarios for S&A
		5.1 Overview
		5.2 Sensors for Early Detection of Outbreaks
		5.3 Actuators for Prevention and Mitigation of Outbreaks
		5.4 Digital Platform for S&A Data Processing
	6 Conclusion and Prospects
	References
Improving Biological Safety on Ships Using Nanotechnology
	1 Introduction
	2 Antimicrobial Mechanism of Silver Ions
	3 Silver Ions in Naval Sector
	4 A New Problem
	5 The Role of CNT Lab in HS4U (Project 101069937)
	6 Conclusions
	References