GIS-based modeling of the environmental vulnerability of the Amazon region to the upstream oil and gas activities
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21154039 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jacqueline Barboza Mariano (0000-0003-4435-0857, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, corresponding author), Adriano de Oliveira Vasconcelos (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro), Patrícia Mamede da Silva (0000-0002-0867-1699, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro), Maurício Hernández Carrascal (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro), Emilio Lèbre La Rovere (0000-0002-9186-7069, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro), Josimar Ribeiro De Almeida (0000-0001-5993-0665, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro), Luiz Landau (0000-0001-7857-9946, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 42 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 522-543 |
| Publication date | 2024-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1461-5517 • E-ISSN: 1471-5465 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14615517.2024.2430851 |
| OpenAlex | W4404823728 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 56 |
To improve the security of investors in the petroleum industry and to bestow transparency and reliability to its licensing process, the Brazilian Government has recently implemented a Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) to evaluate the potential environmental effects of oil and gas exploration and production activities before the concession of areas. To provide robustness to SEA’s analysis stage, this paper aims to propose an innovative methodological approach to map the environmental vulnerability of the area under study, considering selected environmental receptors. This approach combines two techniques, one analytical and the other spatial: environmental risk analysis and spatial analysis. To better illustrate it, this paper presents a case study of the Solimões Sedimentary Basin. Findings show that the approach was able to indicate the more suitable areas inside the SEA region for the development of the O&G upstream activities, as well as to map the vulnerability of each analyzed environmental receptor, to the complete chain of activities, from the exploration for resources until the decommissioning of facilities. This hybrid technique proved to be suitable to the levels of detail required by SEAs and may allow the Government’s goals with it to be achievable, including the environmental issues earlier, in its sectorial PPPs
Amazon rainforest · Environmental planning · Environmental protection · Environmental resource management · Geography · Oil spill · Coastal and Marine Management · Computer Science · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management · Environmental Science · Soil and Land Suitability Analysis · Ecology
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Vulnerability
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |