Monitoring the drastic growth of ship breaking yards in Sitakunda: A threat to the coastal environment of Bangladesh

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 185, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 3839-3851

  Abdullah, Hasan Muhammad ^a   Mahboob, M Golam ^a,b   Banu, Mehmuna R ^c   Seker, Dursun Zafer ^d  

^a GIFU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b BANGLADESH AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Bangladesh)

^c ecoclimbd   (Bangladesh)

^d ISTANBUL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Beach breaking; Coastal management; Environment monitoring; Pollution; Remote sensing; Ship recycling

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC IMPACTS; BENTHIC INVERTEBRATES; BIOLOGICAL PROPERTIES; COASTAL MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENT MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL PRESSURES; REMOTE SENSING IMAGERY; SHIP RECYCLING;

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; BEACHES; ECONOMICS; MARINE BIOLOGY; PLANKTON; POLLUTION; RECYCLING; REMOTE SENSING; SERVICE VESSELS; SOIL POLLUTION; TOXIC MATERIALS; WATER POLLUTION;

COASTAL ZONES;

COASTAL ZONE MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; HUMAN ACTIVITY; LANDSAT; PHYSICAL DISTURBANCE; POLLUTION MONITORING; RECYCLING; REMOTE SENSING; VESSEL;

ARTICLE; BANGLADESH; COASTAL WATERS; ECOTOXICOLOGY; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; POLLUTION TRANSPORT; RECYCLING; REMOTE SENSING; SHIP BREAKING; SHIP BREAKING YARD; SOIL POLLUTION; WATER POLLUTION; ANIMAL; AQUATIC SPECIES; BIODIVERSITY; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; LEGAL ASPECT; SHIP; STATISTICS; WASTE DISPOSAL;

BANGLADESH;

AVES; INVERTEBRATA; MAMMALIA; REPTILIA;

SEA WATER;

ANIMALS; AQUATIC ORGANISMS; BANGLADESH; BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; REFUSE DISPOSAL; SEAWATER; SHIPS; WATER POLLUTION, CHEMICAL;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84878359558     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-012-2833-4     Document Type: Article

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