Our Common Seas: Coasts in Crisis
Most of the world's population lives on or near the coasts. Every nation not completely landlocked has used the sea as its supposedly self-cleansing garbage dump. Now the effects are being felt. There is not a coast in the world which is not dangerously polluted. Sewage, oil, plastics, industrial effluents, radioactive waste have been added to ungoverned development, all of which are busily destroying otherwise robust inshore ecosystems.
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| Format: | Reports and Books biblioteca |
| Language: | English |
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1990
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| Subjects: | OCEANS, NATURE CONSERVATION, SEASHORE ECOLOGY, MEDITERRANEAN SEA, PERSIAN GULF, CARIBBEAN REGION, SOUTH PACIFIC OCEAN, EAST ASIA, SOUTH ASIA, EAST AFRICA, WEST AFRICA, CENTRAL AFRICA, RED SEA, GULF OF ADEN, COASTAL AREAS, MERCURY, POLLUTION, TOXIC SUBSTANCES, |
| Online Access: | https://wedocs.unep.org/20.500.11822/30149 |
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