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Approaches for Ecosystem Services Valuation for the Gulf of Mexico After the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill: Interim Report

2012
Mayer, Larry A.; Boufadel, Michel C.; Brenner, Jorge; Carney, Robert S.; Cooper, Cortis K.; Deming, Jody W.; Die, David J.; Eagle, Josh; Geraci, Joseph R.; Knuth, Barbara A.; Lee, Kenneth; Morris, James T.; Polasky, Stephen; Rabalais, Nancy N.; Stahl, Jr., Ralph G.; Yoskowitz, David W.
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Article Linkhttps://experts.umn.edu/en/publications/approaches-for-ecosystem-services-valuation-for-the-gulf-of-mexic
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DOIdoi.org/10.17226/13141
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AbstractOn April 20, 2010, the Deepwater Horizon platform drilling the Macondo well in Mississippi Canyon Block 252 (DWH) exploded, killing 11 workers and injuring another 17. The DWH oil spill resulted in nearly 5 million barrels (approximately 200 million gallons) of crude oil spilling into the Gulf of Mexico (GoM). The full impacts of the spill on the GoM and the people who live and work there are unknown but expected to be considerable, and will be expressed over years to decades. In the short term, up to 80,000 square miles of the U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) were closed to fishing, resulting in loss of food, jobs and recreation.
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