Research Catalog
Oil spills
- Title
- Oil spills / Joanna Burger.
- Author
- Burger, Joanna.
- Publication
- New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©1997.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | TD196.P4 B87 1997 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xvi, 261 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm
- 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 pipeline.
- Leaks that we rarely hear about. Oil Spills is essential reading for everyone concerned with environmental issues and energy policy.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-242) and indexes.
- 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.
- ISBN
- 0813523389
- 9780813523385
- LCCN
- 96008340
- OCLC
- ocm34604107
- 34604107
- SCSB-2129889
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library