Marine Eutrophication in Perspective On the Relevance of Ecology for Environmental Policy /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Jong, Folkert de (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2006.
• Θέματα: Environment.; Political science.; Geobiology.; Ecology.; Environmental management.; Ecotoxicology.; Water pollution.; Biogeosciences.; Waste Water Technology / Water Pollution Control / Water Management / Aquatic Pollution.; Environmental Management.; Political Science.

Is ecological knowledge relevant for environmental policy and if so, to what extent and in what way? These are some of the basic questions addressed in this book. Triggered by a series of oxygen depletion events in German, Danish and Swedish coastal waters at the beginning of the 1980s, internationa...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 1 Introduction: Ecology for policy
• 1.1 Science for policy
• 2 The art of discharging
• 2.1 The sewage problem
• 2.2 Water pollution research
• 2.3 The contribution of ecology
• 2.4 Emerging limits
• 2.5 Marine pollution and IGOs
• 2.6 Pollution control
• 2.7 Summary and conclusions
• 3. The discovery of marine eutrophication
• 3.1 Freshwater eutrophication
• 3.2 Marine eutrophication
• 3.3 The relative importance of marine eutrophication
• 3.4 Marine eutrophication and official bodies
• 3.5 Summary and conclusions
• 4 The politics of marine eutrophication
• 4.1 1981-1985: The assembly of a problem
• 4.2 1986-1987: Political decision-making
• 4.3 Recapitulation: marine eutrophication constructed
• 4.4 1988-1990: towards the third North Sea Conference
• 4.5 Summary and conclusions
• 5 The management of marine eutrophication
• 5.1 New knowledge
• 5.2 New knowledge and the science-policy interface
• 5.3 Political developments
• 5.4 Summary and conclusions
• 6 Summary, discussion and conclusions
• References
• Annex 1
• Annex 2
• Annex 3
• Index.