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Ballast water management : combating aquatic invaders / Emily G. O'Sullivan, editor.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Water resource planning, development and management series.
- Water resource planning, development and management
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ballast water--United States--Management.
- Ballast water.
- Ballast water--Purification--United States.
- Discharge of ballast water--United States.
- Discharge of ballast water.
- Introduced aquatic organisms--Control--United States.
- Introduced aquatic organisms.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (186 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Hauppauge, N.Y. : Nova Science Publishers, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Focuses on ballast water discharge by cargo ships as one of the more significant mechanisms for biotic invasion of coastal and estuarine habitats as well as inland navigable waters. This book provides background on various approaches to ballast water management and reviews currents laws and programs.
- Contents:
- Ballast water management to combat invasive species / Eugene H. Buck
- Regulating ballast water discharges: legislative issues in the 110th Congress / Claudia Copeland
- Current state of understanding about the effectiveness of ballast water exchange (BWE) in reducing aquatic nonindigenous species (ANS) introductions to the Great Lakes Basin and Chesapeake Bay, USA: synthesis and analysis of existing information / Gregory M. Ruiz, David F. Reid, and others
- Conversion of specific gravity to salinity for ballast water regulatory management / David F. Reid.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-61728-232-4
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