Environmental management for dredging sediments – The requirement of developing nations

What is it about?

This paper reviews the dredging environmental impacts and its two important factors, dredging technology and sediment characteristics, that determine the magnitude of impacts through literature review, and discussed the need for a more integrated dredging environmental management to be developed for developing nations.

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Why is it important?

This paper indicates the need for an integrated approach to dredging environmental management that incorporates environmental implications and the disturbance of ecosystem equilibrium, which was demonstrated vary according to sediment properties and the technology used, in addition to the economic considerations which otherwise dominate the process, to be specifically develop for legislative challenges, negative public perception and cost must also be taken into account, thus creating the need for a more integrated approach to dredging management.