Managing a Sea: The Ecological Economics of the BalticRoutledge, 2017 M07 28 - 150 pages Marine resources and fish stocks are now high on the international and economic research agendas, and the management of highly complex marine ecosystems is increasingly important. The task is complicated by the number of interlinked factors to be taken into account, such as social impacts, drainage systems, marine currents and the ecosystems involved. This interdisciplinary volume presents a comprehensive blueprint for managing a sea. Focused on the Baltic Sea, it employs a range of methods and techniques, including nutrient budgets and simulation models, Geographical Information Systems (GIS), economic valuation and policy analysis, to arrive at an assessment of causes and consequences of pollution in the sea and the management of its resources. From the analysis of data on land use, population, costs of nutrient reductions and associated impacts, it presents significant and highly practical empirical and policy results. It diagnoses the causes of marine degradation, identifies through the use of simulation models cost-effective strategies for remediation and sets out the policies to be pursued collectively by the countries around the sea to restore and manage their common resource. This is an exemplary study in the application of ecological economics to complex natural resource systems. It will be of interest to students, researchers and professionals working on any aspect of marine ecosystem management. |
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... chapters, our aims cannot be achieved without several simplifying assumptions. One could therefore ask what a study like this has accomplished at all? Our answer is that decisions are actually taken at the international scale of the ...
... chapters where land use in the drainage basin is investigated and, based on this, nutrient loads are calculated. According to the estimates derived via a geographical information system (GIS) presented in Chapter 2, the total area of ...
... Chapter 2. Poland and Germany together account for about 40 per cent of the total nitrogen load and approximately 66 per cent of the total phosphorous load. There are a number of differences between the nitrogen and phosphorus load ...
... Chapter 5 by Wulff. This is broken down into two steps, the estimation of the relation between nutrient loads and nutrient concentration ratios in different basins, and the relation between nutrient concentration ratios and the ...
... chapters discussing policy and institutional arrangements for implementing nutrient-reduction targets. The first chapter by Markowska, Zylicz and Gren, discusses the design of a mechanism for the cost sharing for a programme to reduce ...
Contents
Wetlands as Nutrient Sinks | |
The wetland footprint of Baltic cities | |
Limiting nutrient | |
Regional scale Gulf of Riga | |
Basinwide benefits | |
Winners and Losers from Baltic Sea Nitrogen Reductions | |
Summary and discussion | |
Simulation results | |
Conclusions | |
References | |
Index | |
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Managing a Sea: The Ecological Economics of the Baltic Ing-Marie Gren,R. Kerry Turner,Fredrik Wulff Limited preview - 2000 |