This book explores environmental challenges in the Baltic region from an economic perspective. Featuring contributions from regional experts from Nordic, Baltic and Eastern European countries it addresses the response to eutrophication caused by increased loads of nutrients to the sea from agriculture, wastewater, industry and traffic, and cost-effective solutions to reach the?Baltic Sea Action Plan (BSAP)?targets, set up through the Helsinki Commission (HELCOM).?Contributions also explore the environmental impacts of rural landscape change during the post-communist period in the Baltic Sea region and a review of the ex-post evaluations of the costs and benefits generated by Baltic Sea nutrient abatement policies. Public policies towards marine protection, wind power establishment, and attitudes to paying for environmental protection, environmental resilience and the international cooperation in the Baltic region are also discussed.
Chapter 1: Introduction to the Environmental Challenges in the Baltic Region, Ranjula Bali Swain, Stockholm School of Economics and S?dert?rn University.- Chapter 2: Cost-effective management of a eutrophicated sea in the presence of uncertain technological development and climate change, Ing-Marie Gren, Department of Economics, SLU, Uppsala, Sweden.- Chapter 3: Public policies towards marine protection benchmarking Estonia to Finland and Sweden, Tea N?mmann and Sirje P?dam, Stockholm Environment Institute Tallinn and Tallinn University of Technology.- Chapter 4: The Baltic Sea nutrient policies - a review of policy evaluations, Katarina Elofsson, Swedish Agricultural University, Ultuna, Sweden.- Chapter 5: Environmental impacts of rural landscape change in Baltic Sea region, Kari Lehtil? and Patrik Dinnetz, School of Natural Sciences, Technology and Environmental Studies, S?dert?rn University.- Chapter 6: Developing and testing a decision model supporting approval processes of wind power establishments, Stig Blomskog, SchoollCİ
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