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Provedor de dados: | Ecology and Society
País: | Canada
Título: | From frequent hurricanes to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in coastal Louisiana: the impact of regulatory change
Autores: | Cheong, So-Min; University of Kansas, Department of Geography; somin@ku.edu.
Data: | 2014-05-12
Ano: | 2014
Palavras-chave: | Disaster response; Government; Hurricanes; Oil spill; Regulation.
Resumo: | The issue of whether adaptations to past disasters can impede adaptation to new disasters of a different type or intensity will be analyzed by examining the transition from frequent hurricanes to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in coastal Louisiana. In particular, the effects of changed regulatory structures from the Stafford Act to the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 in response to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill are investigated. The article describes how the federal, state, and local governments adjust. In addition, it illustrates the shifting focus on the environment with the activation of the Oil Pollution Act and the Clean Water Act. It wraps up with a discussion of the uncertainty that is pervasive in the case of the oil spill derived from changed regulations and the novelty of the disaster.
Tipo: | Peer-Reviewed Reports
Idioma: | Inglês
Identificador: | vol19/iss2/art29/
Editor: | Resilience Alliance
Formato: | text/html application/pdf
Fonte: | Ecology and Society; Vol. 19, No. 2 (2014)