Environmental Damage Assessment for Sudden Water Pollution Incident —A Case Study of the Diesel Oil Tanker Rollover Pollution Incident

With the booming of economy and population expansion, ecological environment is under great pressure. In recent years, frequent incidents of environmental pollution caused serious damage to human health and ecological environment. To guarantee the damaged resources' timely restora- tion and compensation, it is essential to improve the environmental damage assessment system and investigate the responsibility of damage reparation. This paper took diesel oil tanker rollover pollution incidents for an example, then established a set of evaluation method which was used for quantifying environmental pollution damage from three aspects, including the quantification re- sult of the damage of ecological environment and resources, the costs of administrative affairs in emergency disposal and the costs of investigation and evaluation, in order to provide reference for environmental damage assessment.