Restorating marine coastal ecosystem health as a new goad for integrated catchment management in tolo harbour, hong kong, china

Chinese Journal of Population Resources and Environment

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 11-19

  Fuliu, Xu ^a   K C, Lam ^b   Yongqin, Chen ^b   Shu, Tao ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Indicator; Integrated catchment management; Marine coastal ecosystem health; Pollution loading; Tolo Harbour Action Plan

Indexed keywords

EID: 80051706991     PISSN: 10042857     EISSN: 23254262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10042857.2004.10677357     Document Type: Article

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