Ten years after the disaster of the Agean Sea, the Galician coast is once again threatened by an oil spill. Ten years, during which no effective measures had been put in place to prevent such disasters. “Prestige”, a 26 year old single hull oil tanker carrying 77,000 metrics tons of heavy fuel oil, began to break up in mid-November 2002 near the coast of Spain’s autonomous community of Galicia and towed out to sea, finally sinking 19th November at Cap Finisterre. This place marks the extreme western point of the Iberian Peninsula, where the Prestige has created an oil slick along the coastline of Galicia, and caused one of the major economic and environmental disasters. Fishing is the source of livelihood for an estimated quarter million families in Galicia. In addition to contaminating of the Galician coastline, Europe’s richest in fish and shellfish, the oil has spread to Spain’s northern coasts of the autonomous communities of Asturias, Cantabria and Basque Country, the French and Portuguese coasts. The “Costa da Morte” is the name given to this coastline, which has seen many shipping accidents over years.
Many people from all over the world are cleaning voluntarily the Galician coasts affected by the spill. They have been duped “the white tide” for the protective uniforms they wear and for their work in defence of the environment.1 Since it began spewing toxic fuel oil during a storm off the Galician coast on November 13th, the Prestige has been a major political headache for the Spanish government. The opposition Socialist party and local media have questioned Prime Ministers José María Aznar’s decision to send the tanker back out to the stormy Atlantic, rather than allow it into a harbour where spilling oil could be contained before the tanker broke up. Deputy Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy is responsible for the coordination of the government’s crisis team to handle the oil spill. The nature conservation department of the Galician regional department, Xunta, is working systematically towards gearing its activities to manage this crisis. Now the oil slick is threatening the “Costa lucense” (also called “Rias Altas”) will arrive in the near future at two beaches on the northern Galician coast, next to the town Viveiro. [...]
Inhaltsverzeichnis (Table of Contents)
- I. Introduction – Project “Nunca Mais en Viveiro”
- II. Theoretical Background of Project Management
- 2.1 Definition of Project Management
- III. Planning of the Project “Nunca Mais en Viveiro”
- 3.1 Activity Planning
- 3.2 Time Scheduling
- 3.2.1 Work Breakdown Structure and Analysis
- 3.2.2 Precedence Network
- 3.2.3 PERT - Dealing with uncertainty
- 3.3 Costing and Resource Scheduling
- 3.3.1 Costing
- 3.3.2 Human Resource Scheduling
- 3.3.3 Cost Scheduling
- 3.3.4 Simple Cost Crashing
- 3.4 Risk Management
- 3.4.1 Theoretical Background
- 3.4.2 Project “Nunca Mais en Viveiro” – Example of Risk Management
- 3.4.3 Preventive Strategies
Zielsetzung und Themenschwerpunkte (Objectives and Key Themes)
The project “Nunca Mais en Viveiro” aims to clean up the beaches of San Roman and Xilloi in Galicia, Spain, which have been affected by an oil spill from the Prestige tanker. The project will provide a team with equipment and technical assistance to clean up the oil slicks over a period of 25 days.
- Project management principles and techniques
- Risk management in environmental disaster response
- Resource allocation and scheduling for project success
- Collaboration between stakeholders and local authorities
- The impact of environmental disasters on communities and ecosystems
Zusammenfassung der Kapitel (Chapter Summaries)
- I. Introduction – Project “Nunca Mais en Viveiro”: This chapter sets the context of the project, highlighting the devastating oil spill from the Prestige tanker and its impact on the Galician coastline. It introduces the project’s objective to clean up the beaches of San Roman and Xilloi and outlines the project’s scope and duration.
- II. Theoretical Background of Project Management: This chapter provides a theoretical framework for project management, defining key concepts such as project, project management, and the role of the project manager. It discusses the Project Management Institute’s (PMI) definition of project management and emphasizes the importance of effectively managing time, cost, and performance.
- III. Planning of the Project “Nunca Mais en Viveiro”: This chapter delves into the detailed planning of the project. It covers activity planning, time scheduling, cost management, and resource allocation. It also explores risk management, including the identification, evaluation, and handling of risks specific to the “Nunca Mais en Viveiro” operation.
Schlüsselwörter (Keywords)
This project report focuses on project management, risk management, environmental disaster response, oil spill cleanup, resource allocation, time management, cost management, and the “Nunca Mais en Viveiro” project in Galicia, Spain.
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- Fatma Torun (Author), 2003, Project management - The project "Nunca mais en viveiro", Munich, GRIN Verlag, https://www.grin.com/document/32965