Psychological Impact - Survivors of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill

PSYCHOLOGICAL IMPACT

The Day the Water Died: Cultural Impacts of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill By Duane A. Gill and J. Steven Picou

"The excitement of the season had just begun, and then, we heard the news, oil in the water, lots of oil killing lots of water. It is too shocking to understand. Never in the millennium of our tradition have we thought it possible for the water to die, but it is true." (Chief Walter Meganack, Port Graham, 1989)

The Exxon Valdez Oil Spill and Chronic Psychological Stress By J. Steven Picou and Duane A. Gill

"We evaluated the long-term psychological impacts of the Exxon Valdez oil spill in terms of community structure and resource-based stress responses....These empirical findings support the need to recognize and evaluate stress in resource-dependent human communities when technological disasters, such as the Exxon Valdez oil spill, occur.

Summary of Research on the Psychological Impacts of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill By J. Steven Picou