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Books in Marine geography

Oil Spill Studies

  • 1st Edition
  • September 3, 2018
  • Frederic Muttin
  • English
  • Hardback
    9 7 8 - 1 - 7 8 5 4 8 - 3 1 0 - 3
  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 0 - 0 8 - 1 0 2 9 2 9 - 9
The containment of pollution by physical defenses is the first step in restoring the ocean to its natural state. The first two chapters of Oil Spill Studies: Healing the Ocean, Biomarking and the Law describes the feedback on seven experiments made on the East Atlantic Ocean. The first chapter concerns semi-open sites while the second focuses on open environment directly linked to the ocean. The third chapter examines pollution from a French harbor marina and its effects on the local biodiversity. The book provides a methodology to quantify biological contamination coming from heavy metal releases into the environment. Chapter four provides the state-of-the-art in the science of a mid-depth-living fish species affected by the treatment of oil pollution by chemical dispersion. In a similar way, the fifth chapter addresses new explored and exploited ocean with extreme environments such as the Arctic and deep sea. The sixth and final chapter provides a lawyer’s analysis on the subject.