DPSIR-Two decades of trying to develop a unifying framework for marine environmental management?

Frontiers in Marine Science

Volumn 3, Issue SEP, 2016, Pages

  Patrício, Joana ^a   Elliott, Michael ^b   Mazik, Krysia ^b   Papadopoulou, Konstantia Nadia ^c   Smith, Christopher J ^c  

^a JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Greece)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Conceptual framework; Drivers; Environmental assessment; Impacts; Pressures; Response; State

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008697084     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22967745     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2016.00177     Document Type: Review

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