William Ritchie

2001 Resultant dynamic positions as a principle for the conservational management of coastal dunes, in, Coastal Dune Management. Ed. Houston, Edmonson and Rooney. Liverpool University Press, 1-16.

2001 The environmental impact of changing uses on the North Sea littoral of Scotland. Proc. Joint Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Royal Society of Edinburgh Symposium, in, Denmark and Scotland: the cultural and environmental response of small nations. Roy.Danish Acad.of Sci.and Letters. Ed. G.Fellows-Jenson. Historisk-filosofiske Med.82. 103-122.

2001 Residual Impacts of the Major “Braer” Oilspill (in 1993) on the Coastal and Marine Environments of Shetland, UK. Published as a CD-ROM by NOAA Coastal Services Center. Proc. of the 12th Biennial Coastal Zone Conference, Cleveland, Ohio.

2001 Post-Development Monitoring as Stewardship: 25 Years Experience from Sullom Voe (Oil Terminal) Shetland. Published as a CD-ROM by NOAA Coastal Services Center. Proc. of the 12th Biennial Coastal Zone Conference, Cleveland, Ohio.

2001 Holocene changes in the physiography and vegetation of the Atlantic littoral of the Uists, Outer Hebrides, Scotland (with G Whittington and K.J. Edwards). Trans.Roy.Soc.Edinburgh, 92(2), 121-136 (Earth Sciences).

2003 Chronic, small and major oil spills and discharges – occurrence and environmental costs: the case study of Sullom Voe, Shetland Islands. Proc. Int Conf. On Port and Maritime R&D and Technology, Vol. 2, 7-17, Singapore.

2004 Coastal Geomorphology and Oilspill Contingency Planning, in The Coastal Zone (Ed. Davis and Richardson), Geoscience and Man, 38, 131-146.

2004 Three entries (Washover in Barrier Islands, Machair and Oil Spills in High Energy Coasts) in Encyclopaedia of Coastal Science (Ed. Schwartz) Springer, Dordrecht, 1211 pp..

2004 Monitoring long-term environmental change: Some lessons from Sullom Voe, Shetland Islands, WMU Journal of Maritime Affairs, 3(2), 193-204.

2005 The concept of the international transfer of good practice as an environmental policy component in major oil and gas developments; a perspective from environmental science (Chapter 3), 24 pp in International Energy Policy the Arctic and the Law of the Sea, ed Nordquist, Moore and Skaridov – Martinus Nijhoff Publisher, Leiden/Boston.

2005 The possible role of humans in the early stages of machair evolution: pseudo-environmental investigations in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland (with Edwards, K and Whittington, G), J of Arch Sc 32, 435-449.

2005 Beach and dune erosion: the concept in three dimensions and its measurement in relation to sand beach cover over gas pipelines in North-east Scotland. Proc ICCCM (2005) Conference on Coastal Conservations and Management, Ed. Gomes et al., pp 249-258.

2006 A consideration of the environmental component of the IMO Guidelines in Places of Refuge for Ships in Need of Assistance, with special reference to oil pollution. In: Places of Refuge for Ships, Ed. Chircop and Linden (Netherlands). Ch. 5 pp 75-79.

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