Oil spills : environmental issues, prevention, and ecological impacts /

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Uniform title:	Oil spills (Clifton)
Imprint:	New York : Nova Science Publishers, Incorporated, [2014]
Description:	1 online resource.
Language:	English
Series:	Environmental health, physical, chemical and biological factor Environmental health, physical, chemical and biological factor.
Subject:	Oil spills -- Environmental aspects. Oil spills -- Management. Oil spills -- Environmental aspects. Oil spills -- Management. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11235759

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Other authors / contributors:	Clifton, Adam, editor.
ISBN:	9781633215481 1633215482 9781633215153 1633215156
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Description based on print version record.
Summary:	Petroleum perhaps is one of the most important substances in the modern society due to its wide use in the most diverse productive sectors. Besides serving as raw material to the production of plastics and other compounds, it is the fuel source used in the production of electric energy, in industries and in different transport sectors. However, the ecosystems located in areas of extractions, processing and distribution of petroleum end up being highly susceptible to the direct and indirect impacts of these activities, as well as those located in their transport route. As the large extraction f.
Other form:	Print version: Oil spills New York : Nova Science Publishers, Inc., 2014. 9781633215153 (hardcover)

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