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EUROWA Part H – Oil Impact Assessment Handbook

Author: Kees (CJ) Camphuysen, Roberto Bao, Hugo Nijkamp, Roser Gasol Escuer, Martin Heubeck
Year of publication: 2022
The Handbook on Oil Impact Assessment was developed as a result of a scientific workshop that was held in La Coruña, Spain in September 2006. The workshop brought together scientists from across Europe to identify the main issues with regards to the integration of Impact Assessment into oiled wildlife response and the wider oil spill response.

The main conclusions from the workshop were:

  • The impact of an oil spill incident on seabirds should be prevented, ideally by using pre-spill prepared information on the seasonal distribution of vulnerable species and consulting scientists in the planning of response operations.

  • Impact Assessment should be an integrated part of oil spill response planning .

  • An internationally developed manual is needed on how to design an adequate, standardised system of data collection and analysis as an integrated part of oil spill response so that a reliable assessment of impact on wildlife populations can be made.


This version of the Handbook has been re-published in 2022. It is technically the same as the one originally published in 2007 but with some updates in formatting, references, links and the inclusion of the EUROWA references and covers.

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Cover

Front Pages

1.0 Introduction

2.0 Rationale

3.0 Preparedness

4.0 Spill Response

     4.1 Assessing the Damage

     4.2 Biological Advice

5.0 Selected Bibliography

6.0 Web Links

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