Environmental impacts of recreational activities on the mediterranean coastal environment: The urgent need to implement marine sustainable practices and ecotourism

Ecotourism: Management, Development and Impact

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 135-157

  Lloret, Josep ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA   (Spain)

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