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02. Final Multi Criteria Evaluation: Valuable Salmon Stocks by Major Watershed
01. Multi Criteria Evaluation Layers
A. Estimated revenues at risk in the event of a spill.
B. Ecological index: relative ecological value by species. Species ecological value is ranked by the Committee on the status of endangered wildlife in Canada: COSEWIC, http://www.cosewic.gc.ca/eng/sct5/index_e.cfm, in a series of escalating scales of importance. I quantified these assuming that the ranking was linear, and multiplied the quantification by the estimated population of salmon in each watershed.
C. Probability of a spill Using the legnth of the pipeline as a proxi for probability.
Note: all map projections:
PCS Albers, North American 1984
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