Oil Spill Studies
Healing the Ocean, Biomarking and the Law

The biodiversity into the ocean suffers of accidental and chronic pollution of petroleum and chemicals. Improve the response needs interdisciplinary approach: Science, technology (mechanics, ecotoxicology) and Law

Frederic Muttin (Edited by)

9781785483103, Elsevier Science

Hardback, published 3 September 2018

162 pages
22.9 x 15.1 x 1.8 cm, 0.12 kg

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.

1. Oil Spill Containment in Semi-open Areas:Experiments in French Atlantic and Alpine Waters
Frédéric MUTTIN and Rose CAMPBELL
2. Oil Spill Containment in Open Areas: Four Atlantic and Mediterranean Experiments
Frédéric MUTTIN and Rose CAMPBELL
3. Polymetallic Pollution in Sentinel Bivalves Across a Semi-open Area: La Rochelle Harbor, France
Marine BREITWIESER, Angélique FONTANAUD and Hélène THOMAS-GUYON
4. Oil Spill Dispersant Use:Toxicity on Marine Teleost Fish
Thomas MILINKOVITCH, Stéphane LE FLOCH and Hélène THOMAS-GUYON
5. Extreme Environments: The New Exploration/Production Oil Area Problem
Matthieu DUSSAUZE, Stéphane LE FLOCH and Florian LELCHAT
6. Law Review on Accidental Marine Pollution
Yann RABUTEAU and Frédéric MUTTIN

Subject Areas: Oceanography [seas RBKC]