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040			_aSDU
050	0	0	_aQH541.15 _bA652 2012
245	1	0	_aApproaches for ecosystem services valuation for the Gulf of Mexico after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill : _binterim report / _cCommittee on the Effects of the Deepwater Horizon Mississippi Canyon-252 Oil Spill on Ecosystem Services in the Gulf of Mexico, Ocean Studies Board, Division on Earth and Life Studies, National Research Council of the National Academies.
260			_aWashington, D.C. : _bNational Academies Press, _c2012.
300			_a150 p. : _bill.
505			_aHKBU Library
520			_aOn April 20, 2010, the Deepwater Horizon platform drilling the Macondo Well in Mississippi Canyon Block 252 (DWH) exploded, killing 11 workers and injuring another 17. The DWH oil spill resulted in nearly 5 million barrels (approximately 200 million gallons) of crude oil spilling into the Gulf of Mexico (GoM). The full impacts of the spill on the GoM and the people who live and work there are unknown but expected to be considerable, and will be expressed over years to decades. In the short term, up to 80,000 square miles of the U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) were closed to fishing, resulting in loss of food, jobs and recreation. The DWH oil spill immediately triggered a process under the U.S. Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (OPA) to determine the extent and severity of the "injury" (defined as an observable or measurable adverse change in a natural resource or impairment of a natural resource service) to the public trust, known as the Natural Resources Damage Assessment (NRDA). The assessment, undertaken by the trustees (designated technical experts who act on behalf of the public and who are tasked with assessing the nature and extent of site-related contamination and impacts), requires: (1) quantifying the extent of damage; (2) developing, implementing, and monitoring restoration plans; and (3) seeking compensation for the costs of assessment and restoration from those deemed responsible for the injury. This interim report provides options for expanding the current effort to include the analysis of ecosystem services to help address the unprecedented scale of this spill in U.S. waters and the challenges it presents to those charged with undertaking the damage assessment.
610	2	0	_aU.S. Global Change Research Program. _9202563
650		0	_aBP Deepwater Horizon Explosion and Oil Spill, 2010. _9202564
650		0	_aOil spills _xCleanup _xResearch. _9202565
650		0	_aRestoration ecology _zAmerica, Gulf of. _9202566
650		0	_aOil spills _xEnvironmental aspects _zAmerica, Gulf of _xFinance. _9202567
650		0	_aEcosystem services _xValuation. _9202568
650		7	_aTECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING _xEnvironmental _xPollution Control. _9119108
710	2		_aNational Research Council (U.S.).
900			_a = C.1 SDU
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999			_c106564 _d106564