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Index:

1. INTRODUCTION

2. PRE-SPILL PLANNING
2.1. Preparation of oil spill sensitivity maps
2.2. Developing a plan for assessment and restoration of environmental damage following oil spills
2.3. Integration with oil spill response contingency plan(s) and assigning institutional responsabilities
2.4. Establishing a funding mechanism to respond to oil spills and assess and restore impacted environments
2.5. Review of relevant legislation
2.6. Pre-spill training and simulations
2.7. Identification of high risk areas and resources
2.8. Baseline data on priority areas

3. ASSESSMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL DAMAGE
3.1. Introduction
3.2. Oil fate and distribution
3.3. Biological data collection in the early stages of the oil spill
3.4. Sensitivity and vulnerability to oil
3.5. Prioritizing assessment studies
3.6. Designing and initiating damage assessment studies

4. RESTORATION MEASURES
4.1. Criteria for restoration: a field approach
4.2. Restoration: successful examples
4.3. Indirect restoration: ecological and biological control
4.4. Net environmental benefit analysis
4.5. Scaling restoration through economic valuation and transference of services

5. COMPENSATION FOR ENVIRONMENTAL DAMAGE FROM OIL SPILLS
5.1. The International Oil Pollution Compensation Conventions
5.2. Monetary valuation of the environment

6. CASE STUDIES
6.1. Haven, Italy, 1991
6.2. North Cape, United States, 1996
6.3. Sea Empress, United Kingdom, 1996
6.4. Kuroshima, United States, 1997
6.5. Estrella Pampeana, Argentina, 1999

7. GLOSSARY OF TERMS AND DEFINITIONS
Annex 1. A summary of the impact of oil on natural resources
Annex 2. Taking samples for hydrocarbon analysis
Annex 3. Hydrocarbon analysis
Annex 4. Selection and establishment of sites for survey and sampling
Annex 5. Further reading