Considerations for integrative environmental assessments of contaminated estuarine sediments

Management of Environmental Quality: An International Journal

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 400-413

  Caeiro, Sandra Sofia ^a,b   Del Valls, Tomas Angel ^c   Chapman, Peter Michael ^d  

^a UNIVERSIDADE ABERTA   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CÁDIZ   (Spain)

^d GOLDER ASSOCIATES LTD   (Canada)

Author keywords

Contamination; Environmental assessment; Estuaries; Risk assessment; Rivers; Seas; Sedimentation; Sediments; Toxicity; Weight of evidence

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861999665     PISSN: 14777835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14777831211232227     Document Type: Article

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