Abstract
Civil aviation has become a major industry and is one of the fastest
growing sectors of the world economy. The growth of civil aviation
has advantages and disadvantages for the society. The advantages
include the direct and indirect generation of new jobs within and
around the sector as well as providing a strong stimulus to the globalisation
of the industry, business and long distance tourism. Disadvantages
include its negative impacts on the environment. This paper presents
an overview of the impacts of civil aviation on the environment.
In particular, it considers some of the important technological and
institutional innovations, that have been implemented in the sector
over time in order to simultaneously increase its efficiency and
decrease the negative impacts on the environment. Thus, it illustrates
how a `sustainable' development of the sector is attempted to be
achieved through management of the system's noise, air pollution
and safety side effects.
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