Compensating victims of a European Deepwater Horizon accident: OPOL revisited

Marine Policy

Volumn 62, Issue , 2015, Pages 25-36

  Faure, Michael ^a   Wang, Hui ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Critical analysis OPOL; Deepwater Horizon; Europe; Offshore related incidents; Victim compensation

Indexed keywords

COMPENSATION SYSTEM; CRITICAL ANALYSIS; LIABILITY; MARINE POLICY; MARINE POLLUTION; OFFSHORE ENGINEERING; OIL SPILL;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; EUROPE; GULF OF MEXICO; NORTH SEA;

EID: 84940379071     PISSN: 0308597X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpol.2015.08.017     Document Type: Article

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