title: [The marine coastal water monitoring program of the Italian Ministry of the Environment].
abstract: The Ministry of the Environment carries out marine and coastal monitoring programs with the collaboration of the coastal Regions. The program in progress (2001-2003), on the basis of results of the previous one, has identified 73 particulary significant areas (57 critical areas and 16 control areas). The program investigates several parameters on water, plancton, sediments, mollusks and benthos with analyses fortnightly, six-monthly and annual. The main aim of these three year monitoring programs is to assess the quality of national marine ecosystem.
authors.affiliation: Ministero dell'Ambiente e della Tutela del Territorio, Direzione Difesa del Mare, Via Cristoforo Colombo 44, 00147 Roma. digirolamo.irene@minambiente.it
authors.forename: Irene
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Di Girolamo
mesh_terms: D004784:Environmental Monitoring; D006077:Government Agencies; D007558:Italy; D008386:Marine Biology; D014876:Water Pollution / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence* / Q000517:prevention & control