Coastal areas have an important place in island ecosystems. These areas, which may be fragile depending on the impact of human activities exposed and other environmental factors addition to domestic, agricultural industrial activities, it hosts intensive touristic use spring summer. In this study, closest contact with shores a mainland like Istanbul, among Prince Islands Marmara Sea is under in...

in the framework of the mytilos project (interreg iiib medocc), international research cruises were carried out in 2006 in order to evaluate the level of heavy metals and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (pah) along the coast of the western basin of the mediterranean sea. caged mussels (mytilus galloprovincialis) were placed in situ at six sites in the north coast of tunisia. results showed to...

The purpose of this research paper is to develop a framework to understand the consumer’s preference affecting variables and consumer’s perception choice in telecommunication service providers in India. The present study use a hybrid approach to access the relative efficiency based on fuzzy AHP and DEA model. The fuzzy AHP is used to determine weights of the consumer’s preference as criteria an...

pesticides are one of the most pollutants in aquatic ecosystems. monitoring of aquatic pollution with these compounds is very important. therefore, health status of aquatic animals can be used as a bio-indicator for pollution monitoring in surface waters. diazinon is an organophosphorous pesticide, which is found in the aquatic environment of iran. the concern has arisen over the ability of thi...

Until recently, spiders were used only as ecological indicators. The term “ecological indicator” was defined by Blandin (1986) as a special case of bio-indication in which the absence or presence of a species and, in the latter case, its abundance are the bio-indicator. We have used spiders as ecological indicators to evaluate the nature conservation value and the biodiversity of particular sit...

Discusses the interaction between socio-economic systems and their natural environment, by examining the indicators of sustainable development. Areas covered by the operationalization of sustainable development indicators; Details on the global nature of environmental problems; Important strategy of the operationalization of sustainable development; Link between economic data and ecological ind...