Oil Pollution and Its Environmental Impact in the Arabian Gulf Region: Volume 3 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780444520609)

The oil-related activities cause significant damages to different ecosystem components such as coral reefs, algal mats, mangrove and other habitats. In addition to the increasing potential of pollution and its adverse effect on the ecosystem, oil spills and relevant implications can severely affect the main source of desalinated water for the Gulf countries due to their limited water resources. Interest in pollution issues associated with Arabian Gulf has been growing in the last few years. These issues include identification and documentation of the major sources of oil pollution in the Gulf region, evaluation of the analytical methods used to identify the different types of pollutants, review of the recent advances in oil pollution impact treatment and prevention, develop stronger cooperation ties between interested members of the community, and encourage awareness of the oil pollution as a serious environmental problem in the region.

This book compiles recent studies addressing the above issues grouped in four categories; monitoring and characterizing oil spills, modeling the fate of pollutants and oil slicks in marine water, environmental effects of oil pollution on the ecosystem components, and combating, prevention and treatment of oil pollution.

Author: M. Al-Azab
ISBN-10: 0444520600
ISBN-13: 9780444520609
Publisher: Elsevier Science
Language: English
Published: 12/08/2005
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.34lbs
Size: 9.68h x 6.74w x 0.61d