Bibliograph

Oil spills, Joanna Burger

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Oil spills, Joanna Burger

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-242) and indexes

Illustrations

illustrationsmaps

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Oil spills

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

34604107

Responsibility statement

Joanna Burger

Summary

Oil Spills is the first book to survey the history of oil spills, the problems they create, the types of clean-ups and their efficacy, the legal, social, economic, and ecological consequences of oil spills, their long-term impacts on the wildlife and people who survive them, and the alternatives to oil and its transport. Biologist Joanna Burger writes clearly and accessibly both about the catastrophic oil spills that capture the headlines and the small chronic pipelineLeaks that we rarely hear about. Oil Spills is essential reading for everyone concerned with environmental issues and energy policy

Table Of Contents

Introduction -- A brief history of oil -- Early oil spills: from the Torrey Canyon to the mid-1980s -- Modern oil spills: from the Exxon Valdez to the present -- Oil spills in an environmental context -- Initial responses to oil spills -- Cleanup, rehabilitation, and damage assessment -- Effects on vegetation -- Effects on invertebrates and fish -- Effects on birds -- Effects on mammals and sea turtles -- Effects on humans -- Hazards, risk, and perceptions -- Alternatives and the future

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