Environmental Challenges in the Baltic Region

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Environmental Challenges in the Baltic Region: An Introduction

   • Ranjula Bali Swain

   Pages 1-13

3. Towards a Sustainable Food System in the Baltic Sea Region

   • Markus Larsson

   Pages 15-52

4. Costs of Nutrient Management with Technological Development and Climate Change

   • Ing-Marie Gren

   Pages 53-75

5. Optimal Strategies for Inland and Coastal Water Monitoring

   • Katarina Elofsson

   Pages 77-104

6. Public Policies Towards Marine Protection: Benchmarking Estonia to Finland and Sweden

   • Tea Nõmmann, Sirje Pädam

   Pages 105-133

7. Factors Affecting Choice of Travel Mode in Tallinn

   • Helen Poltimäe, Mari Jüssi

   Pages 135-153

8. Environmental Impacts of Rural Landscape Change During the Post-Communist Period in the Baltic Sea Region

   • Kari Lehtilä, Patrik Dinnetz

   Pages 155-171

9. An Analysis of Permission Processes for Wind Power in Sweden

   • Stig Blomskog

   Pages 173-199

10. Attitudes Towards Paying for Environmental Protection in the Baltic Sea Region

    • Sirje Pädam, Ranjula Bali Swain

    Pages 201-220

11. Is International Cooperation in the Baltic Sea Drainage Basin Possible?

    • Tomasz Zylicz

    Pages 221-233

12. Back Matter

    Pages 235-239

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This book explores environmental challenges in the Baltic region from an economic perspective. Featuring contributions from regional experts from Nordic, Baltic and Eastern European countries it addresses the response to eutrophication caused by increased loads of nutrients to the sea from agriculture, wastewater, industry and traffic, and cost-effective solutions to reach the Baltic Sea Action Plan (BSAP) targets, set up through the Helsinki Commission (HELCOM). Contributions also explore the environmental impacts of rural landscape change during the post-communist period in the Baltic Sea region and a review of the ex-post evaluations of the costs and benefits generated by Baltic Sea nutrient abatement policies. Public policies towards marine protection, wind power establishment, and attitudes to paying for environmental protection, environmental resilience and the international cooperation in the Baltic region are also discussed.

• The Baltic Sea
• Climate change
• Eutrophication
• HELCOM
• Baltic Sea Action Plan
• BSAP
• Marine Strategy Framework Directive
• MSFD
• Marine protection
• Wind power
• Cyanobacterial Blooms
• Environmental protection
• Environmental Resilience
• water quality and water pollution

• Department of Economics, Södertörn University Department of Economics, Uppsala, Sweden

  Ranjula Bali Swain

Ranjula Bali Swain is a Professor of Economics at the School of Social Science, Södertörn University, Sweden, and a Visiting Professor at Misum (the Mistra Center for Sustainable Markets) at the Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden. She is also affiliated to Uppsala University and the Center for European Research in Microfinance (Cermi) at the Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management. Her main research interests are in environmental economics, microeconometrics and development economics. Bali Swain has a Doctorate in Economics from Uppsala University, and has worked for the International Labour Organisation (ILO), Geneva in the past.

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