Wu Oil Spill Impacts

Taxonomic and Ontological Approaches
Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-1-4987-8823-6
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 304 Seiten

Starting with the 2010 Gulf of Mexico Deepwater Horizon oil spill incident, Oil Spill Impacts: Taxonomic and Ontological Approaches chronicles a timeline of events that focus on the impact of oil spills and provides an understanding of these incidents using a number of approaches. The book includes an interdisciplinary oil spill taxonomy, an oil spill topic map, and highlights information–organization tools, such as indexes, taxonomies, and topic maps that can be used to connect information resources with concepts of interest.

The topic map combines the function of ontology with the function of organized information resources, and contains thousands of concepts and their relationships extracted from approximately 300 documents stemming from various academic conference presentations, journal articles, news reports, and web pages.

Divided into four parts, the book begins with a brief introduction of the Gulf of Mexico Deepwater Horizon oil spill events followed by a breakdown of the taxonomy concepts distributed into categories and their subcategories. The book then describes the oil spill topic map separated by concepts, relationships, and references.

This interdisciplinary reference provides to its readers:

- The perspective of multiple disciplines instead of just one discipline

- An indication of the most important topics in the oil spill domain

- Developed research in the oil spill and oil drilling areas

- A broad and detailed view of oil spill issues

The book serves students, teachers, and researchers interested in oil spill issues, oil spill incidents, and addresses their impacts that involve coastal and marine environmental sciences, biological sciences, chemistry, disaster management, geology, sociology, and government policy.

Zielgruppe

This book is intended for practicing environmental consultants, compliance officers in the petroleum industry and scientists and engineers in coastal and marine environments. It would also be useful to professionals in biological sciences, chemistry, geology, disaster management and government environmental policy.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wu, Yejun

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften
• Technische Wissenschaften Verfahrenstechnik | Chemieingenieurwesen | Biotechnologie Verfahrenstechnik, Chemieingenieurwesen
• Technische Wissenschaften Umwelttechnik | Umwelttechnologie Wasserversorgung, Wasseraufbereitung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Methodology
Yejun Wu
Deepwater Horizon Circle of Life and Death
Judith Sylvester
Oil Spill Taxonomy
Yejun Wu, David J. Dunaway, and Amanda Lehman
Oil Spill Topic Map: Concepts, Relationships, and References
Yejun Wu, Amanda Lehman, and David J. Dunaway
References
Oil Spill Research Information Resources

Über Autor(innen)

Yejun Wu earned his PhD in information studies from the University of Maryland, College Park, in 2008. He was an information analyst and associate research professor at the Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China. He is currently an associate professor in the School of Library and Information Science at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge. His research areas include information retrieval systems and knowledge organization systems. He has been a program committee member and reviewer of several international conferences and workshops in his field. He serves on the editorial board of Online Information Review and The Electronic Library.