Minimizing risks from spilled oil to ecosystem services using influence diagrams: The Deepwater Horizon spill response

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 45, Issue 18, 2011, Pages 7631-7639

  Carriger, John F ^a   Barron, MacE G ^a  

^a U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEEP OCEAN; DEEPWATER; ECOLOGICAL RISKS; ECOSYSTEM SERVICES; ENDANGERED SPECIES; INFLUENCE DIAGRAM; KNOWLEDGE GAPS; PROBABILISTIC NETWORK; PROBABILISTIC RISK; PROBLEM DOMAIN; QUANTITATIVE KNOWLEDGE; SCIENCE TOOLS; SPILL RESPONSE;

CONSERVATION; DECISION MAKING; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; RISK MANAGEMENT;

ECOSYSTEMS;

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; DEEP WATER; DIAGRAM; DISASTER; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; OIL SPILL; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; STAKEHOLDER; TRADE-OFF; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; VALUATION; WATER POLLUTION;

BIOLOGICAL ACCIDENT; DECISION MAKING; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; INFLUENCE DIAGRAM; OIL SPILL; REVIEW; RISK; WATER CONTAMINATION;

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; DISASTERS; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL REMEDIATION; GULF OF MEXICO; PETROLEUM POLLUTION; RISK; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 80052730938     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es201037u     Document Type: Review

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