Abstract:

Based on the longterm objective of transforming Shanghai to a ecological city brought forward by Shanghai government,considering that ports network is one of the most typical urbanized subsystems in the city, in this research Shanghai Port was taken as a subsystem,and a reasonable evaluation system for ecological ports was established.After the process of consultation and filtration,an evaluation system composed of 45 selfexistent indices,classified into 5 guidelayers (ecological environment,economic profit,pollution control,environment management,social appraisal) and 10 factorlayers (atmospheric/audio environment,biological resources,foundation quality,economic growth,production efficiency,recycling economy,pollutants discharge,clean production,environmental protection investment,public participation) was set up, and the AHP (Analytic Hierarchy Process) method was employed to calculate the discrepant weight of each index and layer.According to the annual industrial statistics document of 2005 and the environmentresource investigation in the first half of 2006,a tentative evaluation on 15 ports of 7 goodspecies ports types (container,piece goods,multiused,solid goods,foodstuff,liquid goods,and passenger transport) in Shanghai Port was carried out with the comprehensive evaluation index system.Then,some improvable measurements were suggested,such as the index selection,weight and grade estimation still needing the participation of many kinds of subjects;the government departments should establish information exchange platform with research teams to operate longterm evaluation works.At last,some nonquantificational factors affecting the evaluation on ecological ports such as aquatic ecosystems health,sediment deposition,ecological risk and waterland landscape were put forward.

Key words: ecological ports, comprehensive evaluation, index system, Shanghai Port