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Oil spills first principles : prevention and best response /

Marine oil spills are no longer considered unavoidable "accidents" resulting from adverse environmental conditions or functions of catastrophic events. More than 80% of all spills are the result of "human error". The focus of the current legal, regulatory, and convention framewor...

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Main Authors: Ornitz, Barbara E
Corporate Authors: Elsevier Science & Technology
Group Author: Champ, Michael A
Published: Elsevier,
Publisher Address: Amsterdam ; New York :
Publication Dates: 2002.
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Edition: First edition.
Subjects:
Oil spills > Prevention
Oil spills > Law and legislation
Oil spills > Cleanup
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Environmental > Pollution Control
Waterverontreiniging
Zeee n
Aardolie
Preventie
Sanering techniek
Regelgeving
Oljeutsla pp
Electronic books
Online Access: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780080428147
Summary: Marine oil spills are no longer considered unavoidable "accidents" resulting from adverse environmental conditions or functions of catastrophic events. More than 80% of all spills are the result of "human error". The focus of the current legal, regulatory, and convention framework affecting the transportation of oil by ship reflects a recent change in public attitude, in which there is an insistence upon protection of the world s marine environments, particularly coastal ecosystems. The outcome of such global attention is the creation of significant legal and political motivators for a cultu
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (xxii, 653 pages) : illustrations (some color), map
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
ISBN: 9780080537962
0080537960
128107201X
9781281072016
Index Number: TD427
CLC: X74

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