PMID- 23896407
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20140220
LR  - 20130916
IS  - 1879-3363 (Electronic)
IS  - 0025-326X (Linking)
VI  - 74
IP  - 1
DP  - 2013 Sep 15
TI  - Integrated assessment for establishing an oil environmental vulnerability map: 
      case study for the Santos Basin region, Brazil.
PG  - 156-64
LID - S0025-326X(13)00381-0 [pii]
LID - 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2013.07.012 [doi]
AB  - The growth of maritime transport and oil exploitation activities may increase the 
      risk of oil spills. Thus, plans and actions to prevent or mitigate impacts are 
      needed to minimize the effects caused by oil. However, tools used worldwide to 
      support contingency plans have not been integrated, thus leading to failure in 
      establishing priority areas. This investigation aimed to develop indices of 
      environmental vulnerability to oil (IEVO), by combining information about 
      environmental sensibility to oil and results of numerical modeling of spilled 
      oil. To achieve that, a case study concerning to oil spills scenarios in a 
      subtropical coastal area was designed, and IEVOs were calculated and presented in 
      maps, in order to make the information about the areas' vulnerability more easily 
      visualized. For summer, the extension of coastline potentially affected by oil 
      was approximately 150 km, and most of the coastline presented medium to high 
      vulnerability. For winter, 230 km coastline would be affected, from which 75% 
      were classified as medium to high vulnerability. Thus, IEVO maps allowed a rapid 
      and clearer interpretation of the vulnerability of the mapped region, 
      facilitating the planning process and the actions in response to an oil spill.
CI  - Copyright (c) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
FAU - Romero, A F
AU  - Romero AF
AD  - UNESP, Campus Experimental do Litoral Paulista, Nucleo de Estudos sobre Poluicao 
      e Ecotoxicologia Aquatica (NEPEA), Praca Infante Dom Henrique, s/n. Sao Vicente, 
      Sao Paulo 11330-900, Brazil. Electronic address: agatafr@gmail.com.
FAU - Abessa, D M S
AU  - Abessa DM
FAU - Fontes, R F C
AU  - Fontes RF
FAU - Silva, G H
AU  - Silva GH
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
DEP - 20130726
PL  - England
TA  - Mar Pollut Bull
JT  - Marine pollution bulletin
JID - 0260231
SB  - IM
MH  - Brazil
MH  - Conservation of Natural Resources/*methods
MH  - Disaster Planning
MH  - Environmental Monitoring
MH  - Petroleum Pollution/*prevention & control/statistics & numerical data
MH  - Risk Management/*methods
MH  - Water Pollution, Chemical/*prevention & control/statistics & numerical data
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - ESI maps
OT  - Oil modeling
OT  - Oil spill
OT  - Santos Basin
OT  - Vulnerability to oil
EDAT- 2013/07/31 06:00
MHDA- 2014/02/22 06:00
CRDT- 2013/07/31 06:00
PHST- 2013/05/17 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2013/07/02 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2013/07/04 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2013/07/31 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2013/07/31 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2014/02/22 06:00 [medline]
AID - S0025-326X(13)00381-0 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2013.07.012 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Mar Pollut Bull. 2013 Sep 15;74(1):156-64. doi: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2013.07.012. 
      Epub 2013 Jul 26.