Oil Spill Management via Decision Support System

SUMMARY Oil pollution is one of the most important imbalancing problems affecting, specially, marine coastal environments in all over the world. Study in the field of integrated management in both inland and marine authorities, oil pollution prevention and cleanup, and using computer facilities, like Geographical Information System (GIS) and decision support system (DSS) for management plans are among the challenges, which attract the attention of many researchers. And building ease to decision making is one interesting case in this information-based century. Main sources for oil pollution and spillage are resulting from exploitation, extraction, transportation and / or disposal activities. In the case of occurrence of oil pollution in any environment, the first activity shall be determination of priorities for protection against the pollution. Prioritization is based on environmental sensitive areas location, spillage point and its distance from the ecological and human resources areas, kind and amounts of occurred oil pollution, in addition to the time of pollution which, influence the decision making process in both Coastal Area Management and Urban Development Planning. Making a multi-criteria decision support system, briefly, is the main aim of this project to advise the user for choosing the most reasonable method for prevention, control, and/ or cleanup way against the oil spills pollution. It will be an advisory service to determine the priorities in emergency response conditions, that was planned according to the coastal sensitive areas in the Malaysian coastlines.