Threats to Our Ocean Heritage: Potentially Polluting Wrecks

This open access volume focuses on the environmental hazards and cultural significance of Potentially Polluting Wrecks (PPWs), and how mitigation efforts have assisted in documenting and preserving the history of these sites. It is an important resource on the subject of Potentially Polluting Wrecks...

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Autor principal: Brennan, Michael L. (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland 2024.
Edición:1st ed. 2024.
Colección:SpringerBriefs in Underwater Archaeology,
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009834833906719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword (Mark J. Spalding)
  • 1. Potentially Polluting Wrecks: An Introduction (Michael L. Brennan)
  • 2. Potentially Polluting Wrecks and the Legal Duty to Protect Our Ocean Heritage (Mariano J. Aznar, Ole Varmer)
  • 3. Environmental Impact and Modeling of Petroleum Spills (Matt Horn, Deborah French-McCay, Dagmar Schmidt Etkin)
  • 4. Corrosion Processes of Steel-Hulled Potentially Polluting Wrecks (Robert Glover)
  • 5. From Desktop to Dive: Assessing the Pollution Potential of SS Fernstream, USNS Mission San Miguel and SS Coast Trader (James P. Delgado)
  • 6. Managing Potentially Polluting Wrecks in the United Kingdom (Polly Georgiana Hill, Matthew Skelhorn, Freya Goodsir)
  • 7. Polluting Wrecks in the Baltic Sea (Benedykt Hac)
  • 8. Potentially Polluting Wrecks in the Blue Pacific (Matthew Carter, Ashley Meredith, Augustine C. Kohler, Bradford Mori, Ranger Walter)
  • 9. Satellite Detection and the Discovery of Bloody Marsh (Michael L. Brennan, Geoffrey Thiemann, William Jeffery)
  • 10. Searching for a Lost PPW: SS William Rockefeller (John Detlie)
  • 11. Assessment Methodologies for Potentially Polluting Wrecks: The Need for a Common Approach (Mark Lawrence, Stuart Leather, Simon Burnay)
  • 12. Concluding Statement (Joao Sousa, Benjamin Ferrari, Michael L. Brennan, Ole Varmer).