Kim Tae-Goun, Opaluch James, Moon Daniel Seong-Hyeok, Petrolia Daniel R
Division of Maritime Transportation Science, Korea Maritime University, 727 Taegjong-ro, Youngdo-gu, Busan 606-791, South Korea.
Department of Environmental and Natural Resource Economics, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI 02881, USA.
Mar Pollut Bull. 2017 Aug 15;121(1-2):183-191. doi: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2017.05.064. Epub 2017 Jun 7.
Sixteen oil spills occurred in Korea between 1995 and 2010, including the Hebei Spirit oil spill (HSOS) in 2007, the largest (77,857 barrels) in Korean history. Yet compensation for environmental damages has never been claimed under the International Oil Pollution Compensation Fund for any of these accidents, because there is no adequate natural resource damage assessment (NRDA) procedure and there are no internationally-admissible economic quantification methods established in Korea. The objective of this study is to propose a methodology to overcome these shortcomings. We propose the use of Habitat Equivalency Analysis, which has dominated the US NRDA process for oil spills, and apply it to the HSOS as a case study. A Base Case analysis estimates the compensatory costs of fishery habitat damages (34,703.5ha) with a 10-year recovery rate at $119.4 million. We also conduct sensitivity analyses under several alternative assumptions.
1995年至2010年间，韩国发生了16起石油泄漏事件，其中包括2007年的河北精神号油轮泄漏事件（HSOS），这是韩国历史上最大规模的泄漏事件（77,857桶）。然而，由于没有适当的自然资源损害评估（NRDA）程序，且韩国没有建立国际认可的经济量化方法，因此在这些事故中，从未依据国际油污赔偿基金提出过环境损害赔偿要求。本研究的目的是提出一种方法来克服这些缺点。我们建议采用在美国石油泄漏事故自然资源损害评估过程中占主导地位的栖息地等效性分析方法，并将其应用于河北精神号油轮泄漏事件作为案例研究。基础案例分析估计，渔业栖息地损害（34,703.5公顷）以10年恢复期计算的补偿成本为1.194亿美元。我们还在几种替代假设下进行了敏感性分析。
