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Litter assessment on 99 Cuban beaches: A baseline to identify sources of pollution and impacts for tourism and recreation.
Botero, C M; Anfuso, G; Milanes, C; Cabrera, A; Casas, G; Pranzini, E; Williams, A T.
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  • Botero CM; Grupo GESSA, Universidad de La Costa, Colombia. Electronic address: cbotero1@cuc.edu.co.
  • Anfuso G; Departamento de Ciencias de la Terra, Universidad de Cadiz, Spain.
  • Milanes C; Grupo GESSA, Universidad de La Costa, Colombia; Centro de Estudios Multidisciplinarios en Zonas Costeras, Universidad de Oriente, Cuba.
  • Cabrera A; Centro de Estudios de Medio ambiente y Energia, Universidad de Matanzas, Cuba.
  • Casas G; Centro de Estudios y Servicios Ambientales, Villa Clara, Cuba.
  • Pranzini E; Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, University of Florence, Italy.
  • Williams AT; Univ. Wales, Trinity St David, Swansea, Wales, UK; CICS.NOVA FCSH.UNL, Portugal.
Mar Pollut Bull ; 118(1-2): 437-441, 2017 May 15.
Article em En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-28318561
Litter presence was assessed on the entire Cuban coastline, and includes 99 beaches from all Cuban regions, during field work carried out in 2012 and 2015. A standard method verified in several countries was applied, which classified beaches for nine types of litter into four grades (A-excellent to D-poor). Almost half of the Cuban beaches obtained excellent cleanliness scores, although many needed to be better managed. In this baseline, the most common types of residue were general litter (8% grade D and 35% grades B/C) and potentially harmful litter (<68% with grade A). Resort beaches and those with international visitors showed the best litter management. Tourism Impacts seems to be related to visitor origin therefore choices to develop sustainable tourism in rural and village beaches (64%) appears low, if beach cleaning gross investment is focused on resort beaches (24%). Finally, this paper highlights geographical distribution and types of litter patterns.
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Texto completo: 1 Coleções: 01-internacional Base de dados: MEDLINE Assunto principal: Praias / Poluição Ambiental Tipo de estudo: Prognostic_studies Aspecto: Determinantes_sociais_saude Limite: Humans País/Região como assunto: Caribe / Cuba Idioma: En Revista: Mar Pollut Bull Ano de publicação: 2017 Tipo de documento: Article País de publicação: Reino Unido
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Texto completo: 1 Coleções: 01-internacional Base de dados: MEDLINE Assunto principal: Praias / Poluição Ambiental Tipo de estudo: Prognostic_studies Aspecto: Determinantes_sociais_saude Limite: Humans País/Região como assunto: Caribe / Cuba Idioma: En Revista: Mar Pollut Bull Ano de publicação: 2017 Tipo de documento: Article País de publicação: Reino Unido