Climate Impacts on the Baltic Sea: from Science to Policy
by
Marcus Reckermann
This book covers a range of topics, spanning from detailed descriptions of political agreements that protect the marine environment, to basic modeling instructions, to a reflection on the role of climate scientists and their responsibility in society.
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Complete description
The Baltic Sea area is an old cultural landscape with a well developed international framework for monitoring, assessing and managing its marine ecosystems. It provides a good case study for other regions where such management is being set up. The chapters in this book are based on lectures given at a summer school on the Baltic Sea island of Bornholm in the summer of 2009. They cover a range of topics, spanning from detailed descriptions of political agreements that protect the marine environment, to basic modelling instructions, to an assessment of the possible impacts of climate change on the marine ecosystem, to a reflection on the role of climate scientists and their responsibility in society. This interdisciplinary book is primarily directed at students and lecturers of the environmental disciplines to provide an overview of the possible impacts of climate change on the Baltic Sea. It is also intended to serve as a background reference for scientists and policy makers, both for the Baltic Sea area and more generally. The book is a contribution to the BALTEX programme and to the BONUS+ projects ECOSUPPORT and Baltic-C.
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General info
Publisher & Imprint:
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K
City:
Berlin
Pages:
230
More info:
height 235 mm
width 155 mm
weight 514 gr
thickness 18 mm
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Age recommended:
Professional and scholarly
Subject Indexing & Classification
Dewey:(DC23) 577.7334
Departments:
Economic geology; Oceanography (seas); Meteorology;
Record updated at:
18 May, 2013
time:
13:23
Summary
Climate Impacts on the Baltic Sea: from Science to Policy
Preface.- 1 International agreements and Baltic Sea environmental management.- 2 HELCOM Baltic Sea Action Plan: An ecosystem approach to the management of human activities.- 3 Some aspects of the Baltic Sea marine system.- 4 A basic introduction to climate modeling and its uncertainties.- 5 Impacts of climate change, including acidification, on marine ecosystems and fisheries.- 6 Towards Integrated Ecosystem Assessments (IEAs) of the Baltic Sea - Investigating ecosystem state and historical development.- 7 Sustainable climate science.
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