Extent and frequency of vessel oil spills in US marine protected areas

Marine Pollution Bulletin

Volumn 60, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1939-1945

  Dalton, Tracey ^a   Jin, Di ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Marine protected areas; Maritime safety; Oil spills; United States

Indexed keywords

INDIVIDUAL SIZE; MARINE PROTECTED AREA; MARINE TRANSPORTATION; MARITIME SAFETY; UNITED STATES;

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FISHING VESSELS; HAZARDOUS MATERIALS SPILLS; OIL SPILLS; PETROLEUM TRANSPORTATION;

MARINE POLLUTION;

MARINE PARK; MARINE POLICY; MARINE POLLUTION; OIL SPILL RESPONSE; POLLUTION CONTROL; SAFETY; TRANSPORTATION POLICY;

ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; OIL SPILL; POLLUTION MONITORING; SEA POLLUTION; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; AQUATIC ORGANISMS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION; FISHERIES; PETROLEUM; PUBLIC POLICY; SEAWATER; SHIPS; TRANSPORTATION; UNITED STATES;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 78049309903     PISSN: 0025326X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2010.07.036     Document Type: Article

References (24)

1. Anderson E.E., Talley W.K. The oil spill size of tanker and barge accidents: determinants and policy implications. Land Economics 1995, 71:216-228.
2. Boersma P., Parrish J. Limiting abuse: marine protected areas, a limited solution. Ecological Economics 1999, 31:287-304.
3. Capuzzo J. Biological effects of petroleum hydrocarbons: assessments from experimental results. Long-Term Environmental Effects of Offshore Oil and Gas Development 1987, Elsevier Science, London. Boesch, Rabalais (Eds.).
4. Cohen M.J. Technological disasters and natural resource damage assessment: an evaluation of the Exxon Valdez oil spill. Land Economics 1995, 71:5-82.
5. Detjen M. The Western European PSSA - testing a unique international concept to protect imperiled marine ecosystems. Marine Policy 2006, 30:442-453.
6. Framework for the National System of Marine Protected Areas of the United States of America (Framework), 2008. National Marine Protected Areas Center, Silver Spring, MD.
7. Galasso, G., 2000. Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary Area to be Avoided (ATBA) Education and Monitoring Program. Marine Sanctuaries Conservation Series MSD-00-1. US Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Marine Sanctuaries Division, Silver Spring, MD, 35 pp.
8. Halpern B.S. The impact of marine reserves: do reserves work and does reserve size matter?. Ecological Applications 2003, 13:S117-S137.
9. IMO, 2005. Resolution A.982(24). Revised Guidelines for the Identification and Designation of Particularly Sensitive Sea Areas.
10. Islam M., Tanaka M. Impacts of pollution on coastal and marine ecosystems including coastal and marine fisheries and approach for management: a review and synthesis. Marine Pollution Bulletin 2004, 48:624-649.
11. Jameson S., Tupper M., Ridley J. The three screen doors: can marine " protected" areas be effective?. Marine Pollution Bulletin 2002, 44:1177-1183.
12. Jin D., Kite-Powell H.L., Broadus J.M. Dynamic economic analysis of marine pollution prevention technologies: an application to double hulls and electronic charts. Environmental and Resource Economics 1994, 4:555-580.
13. Jin D., Kite-Powell H., Talley W.K. Chapter 4: US Ship Accident Research. Maritime Safety, Security and Piracy 2008, 55-71. Informa, London. W.K. Talley (Ed.).
14. Kite-Powell H.L., Jin D., Farrow S. Expected safety benefits of electronic charts and integrated navigation systems. Journal of Transport Economics and Policy 1997, 31:147-162.
15. Lester S.E., Halpern B.S., Grorud-Colvert K., Lubchenco J., Ruttenberg B.I., Gaines S.D., Airamé S., Warner R.W. Biological effects within no-take marine reserves: a global synthesis. Marine Ecology Progress Series 2009, 384:33-46.
16. Mascia M.B. Social dimensions of marine reserves. Marine Reserves: A Guide to Science, Design, and Use 2004, Island Press, Washington. J. Sobel, C. Dahlgren (Eds.).
17. Oil in the Sea III: Inputs, Fates, and Effects, 2003. National Academies Press, Washington, DC.
18. Palumbi S. Marine Reserves: A Tool for Ecosystem Management and Conservation 2002, Pew Oceans Commission, Arlington, Virginia.
19. Rapport D., Costanza R., McMichael A. Assessing ecosystem health. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 1998, 13:397-402.
20. Scovazzi T. Marine protected areas on the high seas: some legal and policy considerations. The International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law 2004, 19.
21. Talley W.K. Determinants of the property damage costs of tanker accidents. Transportation Research Part D 1999, 4:413-426.
22. Talley W.K. Oil spillage and damage costs: US inland waterway tank barge accidents. International Journal of Maritime Economics 2000, 2:217-234.
23. Waterborne Commerce of the United States Calendar Year 2008 Part 5 - National Summaries 2009, US Army Corps of Engineers, Institute for Water Resources, Alexandria, Virginia.
24. US Energy Information Administration (EIA), 2010. US Product Supplied for Crude oil and Petroleum Products, and US Total Crude Oil and Products Imports [available at: ]. http://www.eia.doe.gov/oil_gas/petroleum/info_glance/petroleum.html.