Vocabulary

OSPAR list of themes of defined pressures on the marine environment

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URI

http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/M15/current/

Description

Themes under which defined pressures in M14 are categorised by the Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment for the North-East Atlantic (OSPAR) International Correspondence Group on Cumulative Effects (ICG-C) and distributed by the Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC)

Creator

MEDIN Standards Group

Modified

2015-09-12

Version Info

Identifier

M15

British Oceanographic Data Centre

MEDIN Standards Group

Members

Identifier	PrefLabel	Definition	Date
B	Biological pressures	Pressures on biota in the marine environment caused by human activities	2015-09-11
H	Hydrological changes (inshore/local)	Pressures exerted on the marine environment by human activites that lead to inshore and/or local hydrological changes	2015-09-11
O	Other physical pressures	Other physical pressures caused by human activity which lead to an impact on the marine environment	2015-09-11
D	Physical damage (reversible change)	Pressures caused by human activity which lead to reversible physical damage of the marine environment	2015-09-11
L	Physical loss (permanent change)	Pressures caused by human activity in the marine environment which lead to the permanent change or loss of marine habitats	2015-09-11
P	Pollution and other chemical changes	Pressures on the marine environment due to pollution and other chemical changes caused by human activity	2015-09-11