The Impact of Oil Pollution of the Seas and environmental Aspects of the Clean-up of Oil Spills

The report is a summary of a paper presented at ESCAP seminars in Goa, India and Dacca, Bangladesh in November-December 1979. The impact of oil pollution in the marine environment is described together with some environmental aspects of the problem of oil spill clean-up. Particular attention is paid to the problems related to tropical countries