Oil Spill Science and Technology, 2nd Edition

1.4. Risk Concepts and Oil Spills

This section considers the risks of spilled oil when prevention has failed, as well as the potential risks, and anticipated benefits, associated with the various strategies available to mitigate those risks. Because oil spills are an area of specialized operations and study, those who are not oil spill practitioners are less familiar with what happens to spilled oil with and without risk mitigation strategies, e.g., dispersants. Similarly, the role of research in risk-related decision making and the effect of risk perceptions on nonpractitioners who could be affected by oil spill decisions are generally omitted from explicit consideration in oil spill institutional frameworks and practitioner conversations about ...