Assessing the environmental status and identifying the dominant pressures of a trans-boundary river catchment, to facilitate efficient management and mitigation practices

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 66, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1839-1852

  Dimitriou, E ^a   Mentzafou, A ^a   Zogaris, S ^a   Tzortziou, M ^a   Gritzalis, K ^a   Karaouzas, I ^a   Nikolaidis, Ch ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Greece)

^b DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

Author keywords

Ecological quality; Evros River; Trans boundary water management; Water pollution

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; BIOLOGICAL PARAMETER; BULGARIA; ECOLOGICAL QUALITY; ECOLOGICAL STATUS; FISH ASSEMBLAGES; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; LONGITUDINAL COURSE; MACROINVERTEBRATES; MICROBIOLOGICAL LOAD; MONITORING PROGRAMS; POLLUTION IMPACT; POLLUTION SOURCES; SPATIO-TEMPORAL FLUCTUATIONS; TRANS-BOUNDARY; TRANS-BOUNDARY RIVERS; WATER FRAMEWORK DIRECTIVES; WATER MONITORING; WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT; WATER SAMPLING; WATERBODIES;

CATCHMENTS; ECOLOGY; HEAVY METALS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; LAWS AND LEGISLATION; MANAGEMENT SCIENCE; POLLUTION; RIVERS; RUNOFF; WATER CONSERVATION; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY;

RIVER POLLUTION;

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CATCHMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL LEGISLATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY; ENVIRONMENTAL RISK; INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENT; POLLUTION CONTROL; TRANSBOUNDARY COOPERATION; TRANSBOUNDARY POLLUTION; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER POLLUTION; WATER RESOURCE;

EVROS RIVER; GREECE;

EID: 84864120713     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-011-1409-x     Document Type: Article

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