Solutions for global marine litter pollution
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A multi-criteria evaluation system for marine litter pollution based on statistical analyses of OSPAR beach litter monitoring time series.
During the last decades, marine pollution with anthropogenic litter has become a worldwide major environmental concern. Standardized monitoring of litter since 2001 on 78 beaches selected within the framework of the Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the North-East Atlantic (OSPAR) has been used to identify temporal trends of marine litter. Based on statistical analyses ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1877-3435
DOI: 10.1016/j.cosust.2017.08.009