Transporting Sediments via Rivers to the Ocean, and the Role of Sediments as Pollutants in the South Pacific

The objectives of this project were to review the present state of knowledge on the amounts and the effects of suspended material tranported to the oceans by the rivers in the South Pacific, review the causes of higher anthropogenically-generated sediment loads in SOuthe Pacific rivers and the effects of increased sediment loads on coast and coastal ecosystems in the South Pacific