Vulnerability of Human Populations to Contamination from Petroleum Exploitation in the Napo River Basin: An Approach for Spatially Explicit Risk Assessment

Vulnerability of Human Populations to Contamination from Petroleum Exploitation in the Napo River Basin: An Approach for Spatially Explicit Risk Assessment

Background: contamination of aquatic ecosystems by oil spills associated with petroleum exploitation represents a serious problem of environmental contamination that can affect human health. We developed a spatial model of contamination risk in the Ecuadorian Amazon, and evaluated the model using in...

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Main Authors: Carlos Iván Espinosa, Fabián Reyes-Bueno, María Isabel Ramírez, Ana Paulina Arévalo, Natalia Bailon-Moscoso, David H. Duncan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2021-08-01
Series:Sustainability
Subjects:
risk contamination
population vulnerability
oil spills
polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons
risk model
human health
Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/13/16/9230

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