Economic, environmental and socio-cultural sustainability of three constructed wetlands in Thailand

Environment and Urbanization

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 305-323

  Møller, Kasper Anias ^a   Fryd, Ole ^b   de Neergaard, Andreas ^b   Magid, Jakob ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

available expertise; development; operation and maintenance costs; public acceptance; public awareness; wastewater management; wastewater treatment; water pollution

Indexed keywords

CONSTRUCTED WETLAND; DEVELOPING WORLD; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; SUSTAINABILITY; WASTE MANAGEMENT; WASTEWATER; WATER POLLUTION; WATER TREATMENT;

THAILAND;

EID: 84860542871     PISSN: 09562478     EISSN: 17460301     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0956247811434259     Document Type: Article

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