Exposure Elements in Oil Spill Risk and Natural Resource Damage Assessments: A Review

From: Human and Ecological Risk Assessment | Date: March 1, 2007| Author: | Copyright information

ABSTRACT

The use of the ecological risk assessment (ERA) framework for assessing effects of oil spills is applicable to the injury assessment component of natural resource damage assessment (NRDA). Central to the ERA process is the assessment of exposure, the critical component linking the release of oil to the assessment of effects. Exposure of biological receptors to the toxic fractions of spilled oil, usually considered the polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH), requires carefully designed and implemented assessment studies, which are periodically refocused on various environmental ...

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