Title	Cumulative environmental effects of oil and gas activities on Alaska's North Slope [electronic resource] / Committee on Cumulative Environmental Effects of Oil and Gas Activities on Alaska's North Slope, Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology, Polar Research Board, Division on Earth and Life Studies, National Research Council of the National Academies
Imprint	Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, c2003
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Descript	xiii, 288 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 29 cm

"In response to the request from Congress, the National Academies established the Committee on Cumulative Environmental Effects of Oil and Gas Activities on Alaska's North Slope, which prepared this report. The committee was directed to review information about oil and gas activities (including cleanup efforts) on the North Slope and, based on its review, to assess the known and probable cumulative impacts of such activities on the physical, biotic, and human environments of the region and its adjacent marine environment."--P. 1

1. Introduction -- 2. The human environment -- 3. The Alaska North Slope environment -- 4. History of oil and gas activities -- 5. Future oil and gas activities -- 6. Effects on the physical environment -- 7. Effects on vegetation -- 8. Effects on animals -- 9. Effects on the human environment -- 10. Filling knowledge gaps -- 11. Major effects and their accumulation