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Decolonising environmental risk assessments of Potentially Polluting Wrecks: A case study of the wreck of the USS Mississinewa in Ulithi Lagoon, Federated States of Micronesia

2023-10-28

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Millions of tonnes of oil lie entombed within wrecks from two world wars which, when released, can cause environmental devastation. Wrecks are predominantly risk assessed by the Global North Nations responsible, resulting in an epistemology that separates human from nature. This research aimed to decolonise risk assessments to capture the spatially heterogeneous nature of human vulnerability to oil pollution. Tria...

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Literature Corpus work: 82a85809-5e06-596e-9fe2-3049be90b537
DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-3478259/v1

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