A review on thematic and chronological framework of impact assessment for green airports

ABSTRACT

Environmental impact assessment comprises a set of analyses, and there are several subjects. However, the “airport impact research” subject has grown into a more integral and broader view. Green airports make this phenomenon more complex when analyzing different operational criteria. This study focused on easing the readers’ understanding of the impact analysis phenomenon more comprehensively. Moreover, the motivation behind this paper is to express the roots of the research subject on the green airport concept. Three domains are defined to classify the impact analysis, affecting each other while focusing on operational or capital investments in the airports. Spending a budget or an organizational function might negatively affect carbon dioxide emissions or further toxic disseminating natural resources. This study has examined 93 published scientific papers to show the distribution of the classified subjects on the three domains as Energy, Natural resources, and economic sustainability. Despite the common superiority of environmental topics, it has been seen that economic efficiency and the importance of the design subjects are the main predecessors in this review. Subjects have diverted into the environmental issues in the later years. Also, popular keywords have been presented to the audience’s attention, which counts the frequency in time.

KEYWORDS:

• Impact assessment
• airport system
• aircraft impact
• energy consumption
• air pollution
• economic sustainability
• noise

Acknowledgments

All authors listed have made a substantial, direct, and intellectual contribution to the work and approved this publication. In addition, all authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.

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Funding

The EFOP-3.6.1-16-2016-00003 project supports this work. The project is co-financed by the European Union.