Title Cumulative environmental effects of oil and gas activities on Alaska's North Slope / Committee on Cumulative Environmental Effects of Oil and Gas Activities on Alaska's North Slope, Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology, Polar Research Board, Division on Earth and Life Studies, National Research Council of the National Academies

Published Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, ©2003

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 288 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) Contents 1. Introduction -- 2. The human environment -- 3. The Alaska North Slope environment -- 4. History of oil and gas activities -- 5. Future oil and gas activities -- 6. Effects on the physical environment -- 7. Effects on vegetation -- 8. Effects on animals -- 9. Effects on the human environment -- 10. Filling knowledge gaps -- 11. Major effects and their accumulation Summary "In response to the request from Congress, the National Academies established the Committee on Cumulative Environmental Effects of Oil and Gas Activities on Alaska's North Slope, which prepared this report. The committee was directed to review information about oil and gas activities (including cleanup efforts) on the North Slope and, based on its review, to assess the known and probable cumulative impacts of such activities on the physical, biotic, and human environments of the region and its adjacent marine environment."--Page 1 Notes "This project was supported by the Contract No. X-82827701 between the National Academy of Sciences and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency."--Title page verso Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-288) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Petroleum industry and trade -- Environmental aspects -- Alaska -- North Slope Oil and gas leases -- Environmental aspects -- Alaska -- North Slope Environmental impact statements -- Alaska -- North Slope TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Petroleum. Environmental impact statements Oil and gas leases -- Environmental aspects Petroleum industry and trade -- Environmental aspects Oliewinning. Gaswinning. Milieueffecten. SUBJECT North Slope (Alaska) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85092531 Subject Alaska -- North Slope Form Electronic book Author National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Cumulative Environmental Effects of Oil and Gas Activities on Alaska's North Slope. ISBN 0309506255 9780309506250 1280209437 9781280209437 9786610209439 661020943X 0309168368 9780309168366

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