Approaches for ecosystem services valuation for the Gulf of Mexico after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill : interim report / Committee on the Effects of the Deepwater Horizon Mississippi Canyon-252 Oil Spill on Ecosystem Services in the Gulf of Mexico, Ocean Studies Board, Division on Earth and Life Studies, National Research Council of the National Academies.

On April 20, 2010, the Deepwater Horizon platform drilling the Macondo Well in Mississippi Canyon Block 252 (DWH) exploded, killing 11 workers and injuring another 17. The DWH oil spill resulted in nearly 5 million barrels (approximately 200 million gallons) of crude oil spilling into the Gulf of Me...

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Corporate Author:	National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on the Effects of the Deepwater Horizon Mississippi Canyon-252 Oil Spill on Ecosystem Services in the Gulf of Mexico
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, [2012]
Subjects:	U.S. Global Change Research Program. U.S. Global Change Research Program 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon Explosion and Oil Spill, 2010. Oil spills > Cleanup > Research. Restoration ecology > Mexico, Gulf of. Oil spills > Environmental aspects > Mexico, Gulf of > Finance. Ecosystem services > Valuation. TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Environmental > Pollution Control. Restoration ecology Gulf of Mexico
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Table of Contents:

Physiographic, oceanographic, and ecological context of the Gulf of Mexico
Approaches to damage assessment and valuation of ecosystem services
Methods to establish baselines for Gulf of Mexico ecosystem services
An ecosystem services approach to damage assessment.

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