Gabcikovo river barrage system: The ecological disaster and economic calamity for the inland delta of the middle Danube

Environmental Biology of Fishes

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 1-17

  Balon, Eugene K ^a   Holčík, Juraj ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Cost and benefit estimates; Environmental impacts; Gabcikovo Water Project history; Hungary; Inundation areas; River barrage; Slovakia; Wetlands

Indexed keywords

BARRAGE; DELTA; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; WETLAND;

HUNGARY; SLOVAKIA;

EID: 0344075964     PISSN: 03781909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1007576103855     Document Type: Review

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