Contemporary Environmentalism In The Baltic States

Author : David Galbreath
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317965909

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Contemporary Environmentalism in the Baltic States by David Galbreath Pdf

This book examines the relationship between environmentalism and political transition in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Environmentalism was a strong force behind the nationalist movements preceding the independence of the Baltic States and the subsequent collapse of the Soviet Union. The contributors illustrate how the Baltic States face contemporary environmental challenges through transition, enlargement and integration into the European Union. This edited collection brings the reader through the political, economic and social changes of the post-Soviet Baltic States as a way of examining how transition influences environmentalism. Secondly, the book looks at how the enlargement of the European Union to encompass the Baltic States has influenced political and legal approaches to the environment. Finally, the contributors examine how regional and global environmental narratives have shaped contemporary environmentalism in the Baltic States. From ‘eco-nationalism’ to the world’s first ‘green’ prime minister, environmentalism continues to play an important role in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of Baltic Studies.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-05
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9789004333444

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Water in Social Imagination by Anonim Pdf

Water in Social Imagination studies meanings of water in cultural and environmental contexts, from medieval Stockholm to post-Soviet Russia. Authors consider both state policy and modern technologies along with creative resistance to the exploitative imagination.

Author : Evald Ojaveer
Publisher : Springer
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319530109

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Ecosystems and Living Resources of the Baltic Sea by Evald Ojaveer Pdf

This volume presents a reconstruction of the formation of the environmental conditions and biota in the present-day Baltic Sea area during the last glacial cycle and thereafter under the influence of extra-terrestrial, climatic and geological factors. Abiotic conditions in the contemporary Baltic Sea (water salinity, temperature, oxygen and light conditions, currents and other water movements) are characterized and in this background the natural regional system of the sea has been generated. Important issues are considered such as life forms in the Baltic and their dependence on the natural environment (both in the conditions of the relative stable environment and during the regime shifts), as well as anthropogenic influences and the basic differences between the areas of the World Ocean and the brackish Baltic Sea. This book also equips readers with basic principles of assessments and management of ecosystems and fish resources (including the long-term assessment and forecast on ecosystems and fish resources) and provides information on the structures of international collaboration developed in the Baltic Sea.

Author : Sara Söderström
Publisher : Linköping University Electronic Press
Page : 61 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017-01-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789176856062

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Regional Environmental Governance and Avenues for the Ecosystem Approach to management in the Baltic Sea Area by Sara Söderström Pdf

This thesis explores the avenues for the ecosystem approach to management in the Baltic Sea Region. This region is one of the most contaminated water bodies in the world, although the first Regional Seas Convention was created here and theregion has a long history of cooperation and environmental protection. The current environmental governance arrangements are examined with specific focuson governance structures, cross-sectoral integration and ecological boundaries.The ecosystem approach to management as both a tool and vision of holistic management of natural resources is traced through the evolution of environmental governance, as well as its manifestation in contemporary environmental policies in the region. It is found that the major EU directives, as well as HELCOM polices, promote the ecosystem approach and that its presence has increased inrecent years; it is now the major guiding principle in European marine governance. However, the governance structures impede implementation indifferent ways. The environmental problem areas in the region all require different governance arrangements, thus obstructing a holistic approach. The environmental problems per se also affect each other, necessitating far-reaching sectoral integration and cross-border cooperation, which at present is the major obstacle regarding implementation. The contemporary trends combining solid regionalisation through HELCOM with increased Europeanisation and macro regionalisation by different EU initiatives offer some promise, but the cross sectoral impediments must be resolved if the ecosystem approach is to become apractical approach and not just a policy principle.

Author : Lars Rydén,Pawel Migula,Magnus Andersson
Publisher : Baltic University Press
Page : 780 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Baltic Sea Region
ISBN : 9789197001700

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Environmental science : understanding, protecting, and managing the environment in the Baltic Sea region by Lars Rydén,Pawel Migula,Magnus Andersson Pdf

Author : Marko Joas,Detlef Jahn,Kristine Kern
Publisher : Earthscan
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781849771498

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Governing a Common Sea by Marko Joas,Detlef Jahn,Kristine Kern Pdf

�This is a very welcome volume, and it will reach a large audience and readership among those involved in these issues from a truly multidisciplinary perspective; in essence, a much needed book!�Erik Bonsdorff, professor of marine biology at �bo Akademi University, Finland�This timely volume provides a thorough account of how the highly advanced industrial societies seek to govern and manage the Baltic Sea. The way they proceed, and the degree to which they succeed, provide valuable lessons for riparian states seeking to avoid tragedies of their commons.�Lennart J. Lundqvist, professor of environmental policy and administration, University of Gothenburg, SwedenHow is a natural common pool resource such as a sea, which is shared by several countries, best governed? The potential for international conflict is immense, as each country may have different agendas with regard to issues such as exploitation and environmental protection.This book uses a case study of the Baltic Sea Region to examine this complex problem. The sea itself has been highly vulnerable to pollution and recently the bordering nations have begun to change their mode of cooperation to tackle this issue by establishing several new forums to manage the sea. Administrative and political structures developed in the region are reviewed and shown to provide a model that could be applied to other seas and natural resource systems elsewhere in the world.

Author : Mikael Sandberg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Baltic Sea Region
ISBN : CORNELL:31924063120533

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Baltic Sea Region Environmental Protection by Mikael Sandberg Pdf

Author : B. Hassler
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2011-06-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789401001236

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Science and Politics of Foreign Aid by B. Hassler Pdf

Contemporary international aid consists of a wide range of various support programs, where the end-result in many cases not only reflects the needs of the recipient country, but also the interests of the donor country. In Science and Politics of Foreign Aid - Swedish Environmental Support to the Baltic States it is shown that this particular support has been directed primarily towards areas of joint concern, such as air pollution and effluents to the Baltic Sea. Environmental problems with primarily local effects have, to a large extent, been neglected in the Swedish support program. The requirement on the Baltic recipient countries to finance a specific fraction of each joint program with local resources has furthermore drained the local national environmental budgets from resources, making it very difficult for these countries to mitigate various local environmental hazards by themselves. In contrast to many previous foreign aid studies where various donor country biases often are suggested but not empirically validated, this book gives an in-depth view of how a particular support program is influenced by specific and self-interested considerations.

Author : M. Fitzmaurice
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781848447318

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Contemporary Issues in International Environmental Law by M. Fitzmaurice Pdf

. . . Highly recommended as a key contribution to the literature. It fulfils its title in being contemporaneous, but more than that it also provides a subtle critique of how many international environmental lawyers have approached their subject. . . this book will be an essential read for anyone interested in the subject. British Yearbook of International Law This book presents an interesting, scholarly read. . . an invaluable reference asset, to law students, researchers, policy makers and non-state actors with interest in environmental regulation and governance. Priscilla Schwartz, Journal of Environmental Law This is a thoughtful and well-researched study of current issues in international environmental law. Malgosia Fitzmaurice s collection of essays is a welcome addition to the literature in this rapidly developing area of the law: it provides perspective on the environmental law issues discussed, but always against the background of the broader concepts and principles of general international law. James Crawford, University of Cambridge, UK The central aim of this insightful book is to illuminate how many concepts in international environmental law such as the precautionary principle and sustainable development are taken for granted. These problematic issues are very much still evolving and subject to heated debate between scholars as well as between states. The author explores these controversies viewing them as a positive development within a field that is in a constant state of flux. Areas discussed include the convergence of human rights with environmental issues and the quest for the human right to a clean environment. The book also clearly demonstrates that international environmental law cannot be analysed in isolation since it greatly influences the development of general international law. Taking full account of the most recent decisions of international courts and tribunals as well as the most up-to-date scholarly analysis, Contemporary Issues in International Environmental Law is a timely and important resource for legal scholars, under- and post-graduates and practitioners alike.

Author : Kjetil Duvold,Sten Berglund,Joakim Ekman
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030218447

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Political Culture in the Baltic States by Kjetil Duvold,Sten Berglund,Joakim Ekman Pdf

The book is the first systematic and comparative effort to capture political culture in the Baltic countries, including political orientation and support for democracy. Revolving around public opinion data from the 1990s and onwards, including two recent surveys commissioned by the authors, the book takes stock of the political climate prevailing in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania a quarter of a century after reclaiming independence and fifteen years after becoming members of NATO and the EU. These three countries share the same geopolitical fate and many contemporary challenges, and yet each has been marked by their own transitions and struggles between nation building and European integration, Western and post-Soviet orientations, and past experience and future aspirations.

Author : Jes Fenger,Kirsten Halsnæs,Hans Larsen,Henning Schroll,Victor Vidal
Publisher : Nordic Council of Ministers
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Science
ISBN : 8773036447

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Environment, Energy and Natural Resource Management in the Baltic Region by Jes Fenger,Kirsten Halsnæs,Hans Larsen,Henning Schroll,Victor Vidal Pdf

Author : Jes Fenger
Publisher : Nordic Council of Ministers
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Conservation of natural resources
ISBN : 9291203998

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Energy, Environment and Natural Resources Management in the Baltic Sea Region by Jes Fenger Pdf

Author : Murat Aydın,Nihal Şirin Pınarcıoğlu,Örgen Uğurlı
Publisher : Ijopec Publication
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2024-07-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781912503155

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Current Debates in Public Finance Public Administration & Environmental Studies by Murat Aydın,Nihal Şirin Pınarcıoğlu,Örgen Uğurlı Pdf

Author : Malgosia Fitzmaurice,M. Fitzmaurice,O. A. Elias,Olufemi Elias
Publisher : Eleven International Publishing
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789077596067

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Contemporary Issues in the Law of Treaties by Malgosia Fitzmaurice,M. Fitzmaurice,O. A. Elias,Olufemi Elias Pdf

This book is a collection of essays dealing with issues of contemporary significance in the law of treaties. It neither purports nor aspires to provide a general overview of all aspects of the law of treaties, and it is by no means intended to be a comprehensive textbook. The discussion of the subjects selected in this book will shed some light on a number of areas of the contemporary law of treaties, and, consequently, on some important features of the international legal system at the beginning of the twenty-first century. The relevance of the rules governing the law of treaties for other central fields of international law continue to be the subject of frequent doctrinal discussion. In addition, some rapidly developing newer areas of public international law, which are regulated for the most part by treaties, have renewed the importance of some older problems, for example, the question of conflicts between treaties regulating the same subject-matter and the matter of treaty interpretation. One other important issue is the relevance of the emergence of new actors and factors, other than states, in the international legal order in general, and in the law of treaties in particular.

Author : Franziska Ehnert
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Climatic changes
ISBN : 9781788979405

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Climate Policy in Denmark, Germany, Estonia and Poland by Franziska Ehnert Pdf

By opening a new dialogue between scholars of public policy and those of public administration, Climate Policy in Denmark, Germany, Estonia and Poland offers a timely contribution to climate policy analysis. This innovative book explores how and why policies are changed or continued by employing in-depth studies from a diverse range of EU countries. Analytical and accessible, this explorative book will be of value to scholars and students of climate policy, public policy and public administration, as well as practitioners and policy-makers.