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Descriptor English: Environmental Disasters
Descriptor Spanish: Desastres Ambientales
Descriptor desastres ambientales
Entry term(s) derrame del Exxon Valdez
vertido del Exxon Valdez
Scope note: Sucesos que provocan un cambio negativo en el medio ambiente, como la desestabilización de la fauna y la flora y la muerte y el desplazamiento de personas. Los desastres ambientales pueden tener un origen natural o estar causados por la intervención humana.
Descriptor Portuguese: Desastres Ambientais
Descriptor French: Catastrophes environnementales
Entry term(s): Exxon Valdez Spill
Tree number(s): SP8.380
Scope note: Occurrences that cause a negative change in the environment, such as the destabilization of fauna and flora, the death and displacement of people. Environmental disasters can have a natural origin or be derived from human intervention.
Allowable Qualifiers: No qualifiers
DeCS ID: 60049
Unique ID: DDCS060049
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Date of Entry: 2022/04/29
Environmental Disasters - Preferred
Concept UI FD00066635
Scope note Occurrences that cause a negative change in the environment, such as the destabilization of fauna and flora, the death and displacement of people. Environmental disasters can have a natural origin or be derived from human intervention.
Preferred term Environmental Disasters
Exxon Valdez Spill - Narrower
Concept UI FD00061102
Scope note The Exxon Valdez oil tanker spilled its cargo in 1989, causing immense damage to a large area off the coast of Alaska. With the rupture of the ship's hull, around 11 million gallons of oil were spilled into the sea, and the area affected reached 1,200 square kilometers. (Adapted from: https://bit.ly/3BapUrP)
Preferred term Exxon Valdez Spill



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