Climate Impacts on the Baltic Sea: From Science to Policy School of Environmental Research - Organized by the Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht /

• Main Author: Reckermann, Marcus (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Brander, Keith (Editor), MacKenzie, Brian R. (Editor), Omstedt, Anders (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2012.
• Series: Springer Earth System Sciences
• Subjects: Earth sciences.; Climate change.; Oceanography.; Geotechnical engineering.; Earth Sciences.; Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences.; Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts.

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...

Table of Contents:

• 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.