Land-sourced pollution with an emphasis on domestic sewage: Lessons from the caribbean and implications for coastal development on indian ocean and pacific coral reefs

Sustainability

Volumn 2, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 2919-2949

  DeGeorges, Andre ^a,b   Goreau, Thomas J ^a   Reilly, Brian ^b  

^a GLOBAL CORAL REEF ALLIANCE   (United States)

^b TSHWANE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Coral reefs; Land sourced pollution; Nutrients; Sewage

Indexed keywords

EID: 83355167566     PISSN: 20711050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/su2092919     Document Type: Review

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