| Anticipation |
Reduced Vulnerability |
Response | Recovery | |||||||
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Formal Resilience |
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| Government | safety inspections | biological analysis | postspill legislation | |||||||
| close field | legal inquiry | |||||||||
| dispatch officials to observe | ||||||||||
| Corporate | organization with response capabilities | containment devices | control fire and leak | beach clean up | ||||||
| oil spill drills | sea surface skimming, burning, dispersant, boom | petition government to reopen leasing | ||||||||
| “chokes” (blowout preventers) | ||||||||||
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Oil Spill Inherent Resilience |
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Community/ Family |
buyers refuse oysters from contaminated areas | law suits | ||||||||
| fish elsewhere | regulate harvest | |||||||||
| personal economic diversification | local funds for restoring oyster beds | |||||||||
| family aid | family aid | |||||||||
| file for unemployment | ||||||||||
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Sources: This table relies on sources cited in the
text and organizes oil spill related actions according to Wilbanks’ (2008)
four elements of resilience. |
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