Oil Spill Impacts

Oil spill research is interdisciplinary and includes coastal and marine environmental sciences, biological sciences, chemistry, disaster management, geology, sociology, and government policy. The main purpose of studying oil spill incidents is to assess their impacts and understand how to prevent, investigate, and mitigate their damages. This book presents a taxonomy and a topic map of oil spill concepts, focusing on the environmental, social and economic impacts of oil spills, using the 2010 Gulf of Mexico Deepwater Horizon oil spill as the primary case study.

Yejun Wu earned his PhD in information studies from the University of Maryland, College Park, in 2008. He was an information analyst and associate research professor at the Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China. He is currently an associate professor in the School of Library and Information Science at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge. His research areas include information retrieval systems and knowledge organization systems. He has been a program committee member and reviewer of several international conferences and workshops in his field. He serves on the editorial board of Online Information Review and The Electronic Library.

Methodology. Deepwater Horizon Circle of Life and Death. Oil Spill Taxonomy. Oil Spill Topic Map: Concepts, Relationships, and References. References. Oil Spill Research Information Resources.