1.2. Oil Spill Context
This section discusses some overarching issues which frame oil spill decision making to provide a context for spill preparedness and response risks, beginning with a high-level introduction of choices about response actions. Oil spill practitioners will be familiar with this information. This information represents an important starting point for readers outside the oil spill community to understand how decisions are made about oil spills. Existing governmental policies and regulations comprise an institutional framework within which oil spill decisions are made at various levels. The scale of oil spills appears in institutional frameworks and influences public risk perceptions of oil spills. Paying for oil spill preparedness ...
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