The FIFA Master is a unique 10-month sport (and not solely football...) Master programme, initiated by FIFA, coordinated by CIES, and taught by three prestigious European universities: De Montfort University (Leicester, UK), SDA Bocconi School of Management (Milan, IT) and Neuchatel University (Neuchatel, CH), in association with the Università della Svizzera italiana.
When the explosion occurred at BP’s Deepwater Horizon drilling rig on April 20, 2010, unfortunately killing 11 platform workers, injuring 17 others and triggering an oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico (GOM), no one could have imagined its impact.
Now recognised as one of the worst spills in history, estimates from US scientists suggest that approximately 160-380 million litres (between 42 to 100 million gallons) of oil have already entered the GOM.
Two of our scientists, Dr Judith Gobin and Dr Azad Mohammed try to assess the impact of the oil spill on eco-systems, and offer some reassurance to the Caribbean.
“The impacts of this disaster are compounded by the sheer size and scope of it. The picture is indeed grim, not only for the Gulf of Mexico’s environment and proximal areas–their coastal and marine ecosystems–but for the cascading effects, and ultimately on human beings in terms of loss of livelihoods and severely affecting the tourism industry. The longer-term socio-economic impacts are therefore expected to be severe,” they say in their review. Click http://sta.uwi.edu/uwitoday/article1.asp to continue to full article
Caption: OIL SPILL AFTERMATH: Pelicans from the rehabilitation centre in Buras, LA were flown from New Orleans International Airport to the Rockport Airport and were released at the Aransas National Wildlife Refuge in Aransas Pass, TX. 27 June 2010. Image: © BP p.l.c.
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CIES (International Centre for Sports Studies), located in Neuchatel, is a private Swiss foundation, affiliated with the University of Neuchatel and created in 1995 by FIFA (under the impetus of its current president, Mr. Joseph S. Blatter), the University of Neuchatel, and the City and Canton of Neuchatel.
CIES specialises in three specific domains: law, sociology and economy of sport, with a view to bring together the sporting and the academic worlds. Privileging a pluri-disciplinary approach, CIES provides a wide range of research, education and consultancy services.