Bibliography of Oil Spill Resources

A brief and ongoing bibliography of academic resources related to oil spills.

*Note: This bibliography is a work in progress. Please check back for recent changes.

Arata, C.M., J.S. Picou, G.D. Johnson, and T.S. McNally. 2000. Coping with technological disaster: An application of the conservation of resources model to the Exxon Valdez oil spill. Journal of Traumatic Stress 13(1):23-39.

Bevc, C.A., B.K. Marshall, and J.S. Picou. 2007. Environmental justice and toxic exposure: Toward a spatial model of physical health and psychological well-being. Social Science Research 36:48-67.

Brewer, R. 2006. The Selendang Ayu Oil Spill: Lessons Learned, edited by Reid Brewer. University of Alaska Fairbanks: Alaska Sea Grant College Program.

Brunsma, D. and J.S. Picou. 2008. Disasters in the twenty-first century: Modern destruction and future instruction. Social Forces 87(2) 983-991.

Cohen, Maurie J. 1995. “Technological Disasters and Natural Resource Damage Assessment: An Evaluation of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill.” Land Economics 71(1):65-82.

Dyer, C.L., D.A. Gill, and J.S. Picou. 1992. Social disruption and the Valdez oil spill: Alaskan natives in a natural resource community. Sociological Spectrum 12:105-126.

Fall, James A. 1990. “Subsistence After the Spill: Uses of Fish Wildlife in Alaska Native Villages and the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill.” Paper presented at the 89th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association New Orleans, LA.

Fall, James A. and Jay L. Field. 1996. “Subsistence After the Spill: Uses of Fish Wildlife in Alaska Native Villages and the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill.” American Fisheries Society Symposium 18:819-836.

Gill, Duane A. 1994. “Environmental Disaster and Fishery Co-Management in a Natural Resource Community: Impacts of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill.” Pp. 207-35 in Folk Management in the World’s Fisheries: Implications for Fisheries Managers,editedby C.L. Dyer and J.R. McGoodwin. Boulder, CO: University of Colorado Press.

Gill, Duane A. 2002. “Technological Disaster, Resource Loss and Long-Term Social Change in a Subarctic Community: An Interim Report and User’s Guide to Cordova Community Fishermen and Alaska Native 2001 Survey Guide.”

Gill, D.A., L. Clarke, M.J. Cohen, L.A. Ritchie, A.E. Ladd, B.K. Marshall, and S. Meinhold. 2007. “Post-Katrina Guiding Principles of Disaster Social Science Research.” Sociological Spectrum 27(6):789-92.

Gill, D.A. and J.S. Picou. The day the water died: Cultural impacts of the Exxon Valdez oil spill. Pp. 167-187 in J. Steven Picou et al. (ed.), From the Exxon Valdez  Disaster: Readings on a modern social problem.

Gill, D.A. Picou, J.S., and L.A.  Ritchie. (2010). “When the Disaster is a Crime: Legal Issues and the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill.” Pp. pp. 81- 109 in Dee Wood Harper and Kelly Frailing (eds.), Crime and Criminal Justice in Disaster. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press. 

Gill, D.A. and L.A. Ritchie. (2006). “Community Responses to Oil Spills: Lessons to be Learned from Technological Disaster Research.” Pp. 77-96 in The Selendang Ayu Oil Spill: Lessons Learned, edited by Reid Brewer. University of Alaska Fairbanks: Alaska Sea Grant College Program.

Hirsch, William B. 1997. “Justice Delayed: Seven Years Later and No End in Sight.” Pp. 271-308 in The Exxon Valdez Disaster: Readings on a Modern Social Problem, edited by J.S. Picou, D.A. Gill, and M. Cohen. Dubuque, IA: Kendall-Hunt.

Marshall, B.K., J.S. Picou, and C.A. Bevc. 2005. Ecological disaster as contextual transformation: Environmental values in a renewable resource community. Environment and Behavior  37(5): 706-728.

Marshall, B.K., J.S. Picou, and J.R. Schlichtmann. 2004. Technological disasters, litigation stress, and the use of alternative dispute resolution mechanisms. Law & Policy 26(2): 289-307.

Palinkas, Lawrence A., John S. Petterson, John Russell, and Michael A. Downs. 1993a. “Community Patterns of Psychiatric Disorders After the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill.” American Journal of Psychiatry 150(10):1517-23.

Palinkas, Lawrence A., Michael A. Downs, John S. Petterson, and John Russell. 1993b. “Social, Cultural, and Psychological Impacts of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill.” Human Organization 52(1):1-12.

Palinkas, Lawrence A., John Russell, Michael A. Downs, and John S. Petterson. 1992. “Ethnic Differences in Stress, Coping and Depressive Symptoms after the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill.” Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease 180:287-95.

Picou, J.S. 1996. Compelled disclosure of scholarly research: Some comments on “high stakes litigation.” Law and Contemporary Problems 59(3):149-157.

——. 2000. The “talking circle” as sociological practice: Cultural transformation of chronic disaster impacts. Sociological Practice: A Journal of Clinical and Applied Sociology 2(2).

Picou, J.S. 2009. Disaster recovery as translational applied sociology: Transforming chronic community distress. Humboldt Journal of Social Relations 32(1):123-157.

Picou, J.S., C. Formichella, B.K. Marshall, and C. Arata. 2009. Community impacts of the Exxon Valdez oil spill: A synthesis and elaboration of social science research. Pp. 278-310in Stephen R. Braund and Jack Kruse (ed.), Synthesis: Three decades of research on socioeconomic effects related to offshore petroleum development in coastal Alaksa. MMS OCS Study 2009-006. Chapter 9.

Picou, J.S. and D.A. Gill. 1996. The Exxon Valdez oil spill and chronic psychological stress. American Fisheries Society Symposium 18:879-893.

——. 2000. The Exxon Valdez disaster as localized environmental catastrophe: Dissimilarities to risk society theory Pp. 143-170 in Maurie J. Cohen (ed.), Risk in the Modern Age: Social Theory, Science and Environmental Decision-Making. New York: St. Martin’s Press.

Picou, J.S., D.A. Gill, C.L. Dyer, and E.W. Curry. 1992. Disruption and stress in an Alaskan fishing community: Initial and continuing impacts of the Exxon Valdez oil spill. Industrial Crisis Quarterly 6:235-257.

Picou, J.S., B.K. Marshall, and D.A. Gill. 2004. Disaster, litigation, and the corrosive community. Social Forces 82(4):1497-1526.

Ritchie, L.A. (May 2004). “Voices of Cordova: Social Capital in the Wake of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill.” Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work, Mississippi State University.

Ritchie, L.A. & Gill, D.A.  (2010). “Fostering Resiliency in Renewable Resource Communities: Subsistence Lifescapes and Social Capital.” In J.D. Rivera and D.S. Miller (eds.), Minority Resiliency and the Legacy of Disaster.  Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, Ltd.

Ritchie, L.A.  and D.A. Gill. (2008). The Selendang Ayu Shipwreck and Oil Spill: Considering Threats and Fears of a Worst-Case Scenario. Sociological Inquiry, Vol. 78, No. 2:184–206.

Ritchie, L.A. and D.A. Gill. (2007). “Social Capital Theory as an Integrating Framework for Technological Disaster Research.”  Sociological Spectrum 27:1-26.

Ritchie, L.A. and D.A. Gill. 2006. “The Selendang Ayu Oil Spill: A Study of the Renewable Resource Community of Unalaska/Dutch Harbor.” Quick Response Research Report 181. Boulder, CO: University of Colorado Natural Hazards Center.

Ritchie, L.A., D.A. Gill, and J. Rezek. April 2005. Compendium of Research on Social and Economic Impacts of Marine Oil Spills.Interactive DVD prepared for the Minerals Management Service, U.S. Department of the Interior. Mississippi State University, Social Science Research Center.