Economic aspects of technological accidents: An evaluation of the Exxon Valdez oil spill on southcentral Alaska

• Main Author: Cohen, Maurie Jeremy
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: ScholarlyCommons 1993
• Subjects: Urban planning|Area planning & development|Geography|Ocean engineering|Environmental science|Aquaculture|Fish production; Pacific; Sockeye; Pink salmon; Alaska; Tanner crab
• Online Access: https://repository.upenn.edu/dissertations/AAI9331767

The potential of natural disasters to generate short-term economic benefits for impacted populations has become an accepted social science notion. However, the economic dimensions of human-made disasters such as radiation releases, toxic exposures, and oil spills have not received sufficient examina...