An integrated environmental risk assessment and management framework for enhancing the sustainability of marine protected areas: the Cape d'Aguilar Marine Reserve case study in Hong Kong.

@article{Xu2015AnIE,
  title={An integrated environmental risk assessment and management framework for enhancing the sustainability of marine protected areas: the Cape d'Aguilar Marine Reserve case study in Hong Kong.},
  author={Elvis Genbo Xu and Kenneth Mei Yee Leung and Brian Morton and J. H. W. Lee},
  journal={The Science of the total environment},
  year={2015},
  volume={505},
  pages={
          269-81
        }
}

• Elvis Genbo Xu, Kenneth Mei Yee Leung, +1 author J. H. W. Lee
• Published 2015 in The Science of the total environment
• DOI:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2014.09.088

Marine protected areas (MPAs), such as marine parks and reserves, contain natural resources of immense value to the environment and mankind. Since MPAs may be situated in close proximity to urbanized areas and influenced by anthropogenic activities (e.g. continuous discharges of contaminated waters), the marine organisms contained in such waters are probably at risk. This study aimed at developing an integrated environmental risk assessment and management (IERAM) framework for enhancing the… CONTINUE READING

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