Overview
- Presents a remedial strategy to combat eutrophication in the Baltic Seas, which challenges the accepted remedial strategy
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Environmental Science and Engineering (ESE)
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
For many years the reduction of eutrophication in the Baltic Sea has been a hot issue for mass-media, science, political parties and environmental action groups with manifold implications related to fisheries (will the Baltic cod survive?), sustainable coastal development (have billions of Euros been wasted on nitrogen reductions?), ecotoxicology (can we safely eat Baltic fish?). This book takes a holistic process-based ecosystem perspective on the eutrophication in the Baltic Sea, with a focus on the factors regulating how the system would respond to changes in nutrient loading. This includes a very special process for the Baltic Sea: land uplift. After being depressed by the glacial ice, the land is now slowly rising adding vast amounts of previously deposited nutrients and clay particles to the system. 110,000 to 140,000 tons of phosphorus per year are added to the system from land uplift, in comparison to the 30,000 tons of phosphorus per year from rivers.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Eutrophication in the Baltic Sea
Book Subtitle: Present Situation, Nutrient Transport Processes, Remedial Strategies
Authors: Lars Håkanson, Andreas C. Bryhn
Series Title: Environmental Science and Engineering
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-70909-1
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2008
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-70908-4Published: 25 September 2008
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-08990-9Published: 30 November 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-70909-1Published: 26 September 2008
Series ISSN: 1863-5520
Series E-ISSN: 1863-5539
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 261
Topics: Life Sciences, general, Marine & Freshwater Sciences, Sustainable Development, Ecology