Valuing the benefits of improved marine environmental quality under multiple stressors

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 551-552, Issue , 2016, Pages 367-375

  Tuhkanen, Heidi ^a   Piirsalu, Evelin ^a   Nõmmann, Tea ^a   Karlõševa, Aljona ^a   Nõmmann, Sulev ^a   Czajkowski, Mikołaj ^b   Hanley, Nick ^c  

^a STOCKHOLM ENVIRONMENT INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Choice experiments; Eutrophication; Good Environmental Status; Marine Strategy Framework Directive; Marine water quality; Multiple stressors; Non indigenous species; Oil and chemical spills

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEMS; EUTROPHICATION; POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY;

CHEMICAL SPILL; CHOICE EXPERIMENTS; GOOD ENVIRONMENTAL STATUS; MARINE STRATEGY FRAMEWORK DIRECTIVES; MARINE WATER QUALITY; MULTIPLE STRESSORS; NONINDIGENOUS SPECIES;

OIL SPILLS;

COASTAL ZONE MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; EUTROPHICATION; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; WILLINGNESS TO PAY;

ARTICLE; BALTIC SEA; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; ESTONIA; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HOUSEHOLD; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; OIL SPILL; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RISK REDUCTION; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER QUALITY; ANALYSIS; BALTIC STATES; ECONOMICS; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; EUTROPHICATION; PROCEDURES; SHIP; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; WATER POLLUTANT; WATER POLLUTION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA; ESTONIA;

BALTIC STATES; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ESTONIA; EUTROPHICATION; SHIPS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER POLLUTION, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84957871839     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.02.011     Document Type: Article

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