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Performance Monitoring

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Wastewater Management for Coastal Cities

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Wastewater management for coastal cities occupies a geographically small but economically important part of the ocean as a global commons whose stewardship includes monitoring. Here, we define three scales of monitoring consistent with the World Bank’s linked hierarchical approach to monitoring environmental progress (91). Performance monitoring is a microscale activity for day-to-day operations and short-term (up to five years) planning for changes in waste management practices. Data collection focuses on that whose use is known.

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Gunnerson, C.G., French, J.A. (1996). Performance Monitoring. In: Gunnerson, C.G., French, J.A. (eds) Wastewater Management for Coastal Cities. Environmental Engineering. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-79729-3_10

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