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Environmental Governance of the Baltic Sea

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Overview

  • Provides a comprehensive interdisciplinary analysis of challenges and possibilities for sustainable governance of the Baltic Sea ecosystem
  • Includes up-to-date descriptions and analyses of environmental governance linked to various important environmental problems
  • Draws conclusions on key challenges and possible ways of improving environmental governance, science-policy interactions, stakeholder communication and participation

Part of the book series: MARE Publication Series (MARE, volume 10)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Interdisciplinary Case Studies of Environmental Governance

  2. Cross-Case Analysis of Key Environmental Governance Challenges

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About this book

This edited volume presents a comprehensive and coherent interdisciplinary analysis of challenges and possibilities for sustainable governance of the Baltic Sea ecosystem by combining knowledge and approaches from natural and social sciences. Focusing on the Ecosystem Approach to Management (EAM) and associated multi-level, multi-sector and multi-actor challenges, the book provides up-to-date descriptions and analyses of environmental governance structures and processes at the macro-regional Baltic Sea level. Organised in two parts, Part 1 presents in-depth case studies of environmental governance practices and challenges linked to five key environmental problems - eutrophication, chemical pollution, overfishing, oil discharges and invasive species. Part 2 analyses and compares governance challenges and opportunities across the five case studies, focusing on governance structures and EAM implementation, knowledge integration and science support, as well as stakeholder communication andparticipation. Based on these cross-case comparisons, this book also draws a set of general conclusions on possible ways of improving the governance of the Baltic Sea by promoting what are identified as vital functions of environmental governance: coordination, integration, interdisciplinarity, precaution, deliberation, communication and adaptability.

Editors and Affiliations

  • School of Nat Sci, Tech and EnvSci, Södertörn University, Huddinge, Sweden

    Michael Gilek

  • School of Nat Sci Tech and Env Sci, Södertörn University, Huddinge, Sweden

    Mikael Karlsson

  • Dept of Phil, Ling, &Theory of Sci, University of Gothenburg, Göteborg, Sweden

    Sebastian Linke

  • Dept of Mar Ecosys Fun, Inst of Oceanogr, University of Gdańsk, Gdynia, Poland

    Katarzyna Smolarz

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