T1 Our Common Seas: Coasts in Crisis
A1 United Nations Environment Programme, 
A2 Hinrichsen, D.
K1 ocean
K1 nature conservation
K1 seashore ecology
K1 Mediterranean Sea
K1 Persian Gulf
K1 Caribbean region
K1 South Pacific Ocean
K1 East Asia
K1 South Asia
K1 East Africa
K1 West Africa
K1 Central Africa
K1 Red Sea
K1 Gulf of Aden
K1 coastal area
K1 mercury
K1 pollution
K1 toxic substance
SN 1-85383-030-5
YR 1990
FD 1990
LK https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/30149
UL https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/30149
NO 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.
DS UN Environment Document Repository
RD Sep 22, 2026