OIL SPILL IMPACTS

Oil spill research is interdisciplinary and includes coastal and marine environmental sciences, biological sciences, chemistry, disaster management, geology, sociology, and government policy. The main purpose of studying oil spill incidents is to assess their impacts and understand how to prevent, investigate, and mitigate their damages. This book presents a taxonomy and a topic map of oil spill concepts, focusing on the environmental, social and economic impacts of oil spills, using the 2010 Gulf of Mexico Deepwater Horizon oil spill as the primary case study.