Authors: Giambattista Guidi Merica Sliskovic Anna Carmela Violante Luka Vukic
Publish Date: 2015/10/24
Volume: 23, Issue: 2, Pages: 1944-1953
Abstract
An oil spill is the accidental or intentional discharge of petroleum products into the environment due to human activities Although oil spills are actually just a little percent of the total world oil pollution problem they represent the most visible form of it The impact on the ecosystems can be severe as well as the impact on economic activities Oil spill cleanup is a very difficult and expensive activity and many techniques are available for it In previous works a methodology based on different kinds of criteria in order to come to the most satisfactory technique was proposed and the relative importance of each impact criterion on the basis of the Saaty’s Analytic Hierarchy Process AHP was also evaluated After a review of the best available techniques BATs available for oil spill response this work suggests criteria for BATs’ selection when oil spills occur in the Mediterranean Sea under welldefined circumstances calm sea and presence of economic activities in the affected area A group of experts with different specializations evaluated the alternative BATs by means of AHP method taking into account their respective advantages and disadvantages
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