Baltic Sea nutrient reductions – What should we aim for?

Ahtiainen, Heini; Artell, Janne; Elmgren, Ragnar; Hasselström, Linus; Håkansson, Cecilia

doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2014.05.016

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“…The use of monitoring data to inform the public about changes in the environment can increase their interest for sustainable sea use and increased awareness can strengthen the commitment of citizens to facilitate and speed up the reaching of GES. Motivation of people to participate on marine protection in the Baltic Sea area has been studied for example by Söderqvist (1998) and Ahtiainen et al (2014b).…”

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Price vs. Value of Marine Monitoring

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Monitoring data facilitate the basic understanding of changes taking place in nature and provide information for making management decisions, but environmental monitoring is often considered expensive. Here, we apply the concept of value of information to evaluate the value of marine monitoring in the EU Marine Strategy Framework Directive context. We estimated the costs of the Finnish marine monitoring program and used the costs and economic benefits estimates of the Finnish marine strategy to assess the value of environmental monitoring. The numbers were applied to scenarios with different levels of information available prior to management decision-making. Monitoring costs were related to the value of perfect information prior to the management decision, assuming that managers will choose the management option that maximizes the benefits. The underlying assumptions of the conceptual model are that more accurate information about the status facilitates the selection of an optimal set of measures to achieve the environmental objectives and the related welfare gains from the improved environmental status. Our results emphasize the fact that monitoring is an essential part of effective marine management. Importantly, our study show that the value of marine monitoring data is an order of magnitude greater than the resources currently spent on monitoring and that an improved knowledge base can facilitate the planning of more cost-effective measures.

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“…cap and trade) or something else (e.g. BalticStern 2013 ; Ahtiainen et al 2014 ;Tynkkynen et al 2014 ;Wulff et al 2014 ). Second, given the complex ecosystem dynamics associated with eutrophication, coping with fundamental uncertainties is a basic challenge when striving to implement EAM in the case of Baltic Sea eutrophication governance (cf.…”

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Eutrophication and the Ecosystem Approach to Management: A Case Study of Baltic Sea Environmental Governance

Karlsson

Gilek

Lundberg

2016

Environmental Governance of the Baltic Sea

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This study investigates if and how present institutional structures and interactions between scientifi c assessment and environmental management are suffi cient for implementing the ecosystem approach to management (EAM) in the case of Baltic Sea eutrophication. Concerning governance structures, a number of institutions and policies focus on issues relating to eutrophication. In many cases, the policies are mutually supportive rather than contradictory, as seen, for example, in the case of the mutually supportive BSAP and MSFD. The opposite is true, however, when it comes to the linkages with some other policy areas, in particular regarding agricultural policy, where the EU CAP subsidises intensive agriculture with at best minor consideration of environmental objectives, thereby undermining EAM. Enhanced policy coherence and stricter policies on concrete measures to combat eutrophication seem well needed in order to reach stated environmental objectives. When it comes to assessment-management interactions, the science-policy interface has worked well in periods, but the more specifi c that policies have become, for example, in the BSAP case, the more question marks have been raised about science by affected stakeholders. At present, outright controversies exist, and EAM is far from realised in eutrophication policy in the Baltic Sea region. Besides coping with remaining uncertainties by improving the knowledge on problems and solutions -not least in terms of the socio-economic impacts of eutrophication -it may therefore be valuable to develop venues for improved stakeholder participation.

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“…Excess external nutrients come from sources such as agricultural run-off, wastewater, livestock farms, atmospheric deposition and urban centers [98] [130]. There are a number of ways that these sources and the runoff of nutrients can be managed [2]. Free water surface wetlands (FWSW) and constructed lakes can be utilized as buffer zones between nutrient sources and lakes or reservoirs [52] [114] [115].…”

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Sustainable Management of Eutrophic Lakes and Reservoirs

Wagner¹,

Erickson²

2017

JEP

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Eutrophication of lakes and reservoirs is a major water quality problem that poses significant environmental, economic and social threats around the world. Monitoring and managing lakes and reservoirs to prevent or limit eutrophication, therefore, has significant value. The literature has been reviewed to study ecological engineering and management methods that have been and can be applied to improve water quality. Ecological engineering has the potential to be utilized to improve the design and operation of lakes and reservoirs through monitoring and active management of biological, chemical and physical components. Phosphorus concentrations can be reduced by effective and sustainable management practices to improve water quality.

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Baltic Sea nutrient reductions – What should we aim for?

Cited by 26 publications

References 40 publications

Price vs. Value of Marine Monitoring

Price vs. Value of Marine Monitoring

Eutrophication and the Ecosystem Approach to Management: A Case Study of Baltic Sea Environmental Governance

Sustainable Management of Eutrophic Lakes and Reservoirs

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