Assessing Environmental Risk of Oil Spills with ERA Acute

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvi

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2. Introduction to the Concepts and Use of ERA Acute

   • Cathrine Stephansen, Anders Bjørgesæter, Odd Willy Brude, Ute Brönner, Tonje Waterloo Rogstad, Grethe Kjeilen-Eilertsen et al.

   Pages 1-19Open Access

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3. Environmental Risk Management Applications of ERA Acute

   • Cathrine Stephansen, Anders Bjørgesæter, Odd Willy Brude, Ute Brönner, Tonje Waterloo Rogstad, Grethe Kjeilen-Eilertsen et al.

   Pages 21-31Open Access

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4. An ERA Acute Model Overview

   • Cathrine Stephansen, Anders Bjørgesæter, Odd Willy Brude, Ute Brönner, Tonje Waterloo Rogstad, Grethe Kjeilen-Eilertsen et al.

   Pages 33-57Open Access

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5. Testing and Validating Against Historic Spills

   • Cathrine Stephansen, Anders Bjørgesæter, Odd Willy Brude, Ute Brönner, Tonje Waterloo Rogstad, Grethe Kjeilen-Eilertsen et al.

   Pages 59-86Open Access

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6. Handling Uncertainty and Sensitivity of ERA Acute Towards Input Parameters

   • Cathrine Stephansen, Anders Bjørgesæter, Odd Willy Brude, Ute Brönner, Tonje Waterloo Rogstad, Grethe Kjeilen-Eilertsen et al.

   Pages 87-107Open Access

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7. Back Matter

   Pages 109-119

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This open access book introduces readers to a new methodology for assessing the risks to the marine environment following accidental oil spills. The methodology will soon be implemented on the Norwegian Continental Shelf and will be complemented by guidelines for its use in a regulatory framework.  


The brief book is intended to provide international readers with a basic grasp of what the ERA Acute methodology consists of, what its applications are, and the underlying impact and restoration models used in its development. The content is divided into three main parts: an introduction and overview of risk management applications for generalists at the management level, a model overview for generalist scientists, and a more detailed final section for risk assessment professionals, which presents the results of the validation and sensitivity testing.     

• Oil Spills
• Environmental Risk Assessment
• Environmental Modelling
• Environmental Risk Management
• Oil Spill Impact
• Oil Spill Restoration
• Resource Damage Factor
• Open Access
• water quality and water pollution

• Akvaplan-niva AS, Tromsø, Norway

  Cathrine Stephansen

• IKM Acona AS, Oslo, Norway

  Anders Bjørgesæter

• DNV, Høvik, Norway

  Odd Willy Brude

• SINTEF Ocean, Trondheim, Norway

  Ute Brönner

• Equinor ASA, Trondheim, Norway

  Tonje Waterloo Rogstad, Christian Collin-Hansen

• Total E & P Norge AS, Stavanger, Norway

  Grethe Kjeilen-Eilertsen

• Total, Paris, France

  Jean-Marie Libre

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