Comparison of pollutant discharge per capita (PDC) and its relationships with economic development: An indicator for ambient water quality improvement as well as the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) sanitation indicator

Ecological Indicators

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 971-981

  Tsuzuki, Yoshiaki ^a,b,c  

^a TOYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Roppongi 7 22 34   (Japan)

^c SHIMANE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Developing countries; Domestic wastewater treatment; Environmental Kuznets curve (EKC); Marine pollution abatement and ambient water quality improvement; Pollutant discharge per capita (PDC)

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ECONOMICS; MARINE POLLUTION; NITROGEN REMOVAL; OCEANOGRAPHY; OXYGEN; PHOSPHORUS; POLLUTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SANITATION; WASTEWATER; WASTEWATER RECLAMATION; WATER QUALITY; WATER RECYCLING; WATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

BIOLOGICAL OXYGEN DEMANDS; BLACKWATER; DOMESTIC WASTEWATER TREATMENT; DOMESTIC WASTEWATERS; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL KUZNETS CURVE (EKC); GRAPHICAL ANALYSIS; GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCTIONS; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; MARINE POLLUTION ABATEMENT AND AMBIENT WATER QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS; NITROGEN SOURCES; NUTRIENT REMOVALS; POLLUTANT DISCHARGE PER CAPITA (PDC); REGIONAL GROUPINGS; TOTAL NITROGENS; TOTAL PHOSPHORUS; U-SHAPED; WATER POLLUTANTS;

WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISCHARGE; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT; KUZNETS CURVE; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; SANITATION; WATER QUALITY;

EID: 60849092881     PISSN: 1470160X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2008.11.006     Document Type: Article

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