Integrated management of pollution stress in the Gulf

Protecting the Gulf's Marine Ecosystems from Pollution

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 57-92

  Khan, Nuzrat Yar ^a,b  

^a FISHERIES AND OCEANS CANADA   (Canada)

^b GC UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-7643-7947-6_4     Document Type: Chapter

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