Assessing socio-economic and natural vulnerability to oil spills: a case study of Azerbaijan’s Caspian shoreline
Neafie J. Albakassova M. Bayramov E.
2025Routledge
International Journal of Water Resources Development
2025#41Issue 1152 - 175 pp.
This study addresses the environmental and socio-economic impacts of oil spills on the Caspian shoreline. Proactive ecological management must include diverse static and dynamic information to measure pollution’s environmental and human impacts. This study develops a hybrid environmental sensitivity index (ESI) map for Azerbaijan’s coast, integrating biological, socio-economic, and physical sensitivity data with historical risk measures. The ESI assists local and national managers to plan and improve response readiness to oil spills. The approach could also be applied across all Caspian littoral states, where increasing oil activities heighten risks in vulnerable areas.
Caspian Sea , environmental sensitivity , Eurasia , hazard , oil pollution , vulnerability
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Political Science and International Relations, Nazarbayev University, Astana, Kazakhstan
Department of Economics and Business, Central European University, Vienna, Austria
School of Mining and Geosciences, Nazarbayev University, Astana, Kazakhstan
Institute of Smart Systems and Artificial Intelligence (ISSAI), Nazarbayev University, Astana, Kazakhstan
Political Science and International Relations
Department of Economics and Business
School of Mining and Geosciences
Institute of Smart Systems and Artificial Intelligence (ISSAI)
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