Overview
- First book with holistic view to the region.
- First discussion between the international geological scientific community and the different stakeholders concerned with the densely populated Baltic Sea drainage basin and the exploitation of the Baltic Sea resources.
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Central and Eastern European Development Studies (CEEDES) (CEEDES)
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Table of contents (20 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Geological and Tectonical Evolution
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The Basin Fill as a Climate and Sea Level Record
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Coastline Changes
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Coastline changes
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Sediment Dynamics
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Keywords
About this book
This book reports about the results of a Special Symposium “The Baltic Sea Basin”, held on August 11, 2008, within the frame of the 33rd IGC at Oslo, Norway in order to foster the understanding of the Baltic Basin as a unit in terms of genesis, structure, ongoing processes and utilization. It is the first time that in a joint publication, scientists from different disciplines give a comprehensive overview about the Baltic Sea basin in such a general sense. The book will be used not only by students and scientist but also by engineers and decision makers from industry and politics. Summarizing the state of the art in the investigation of the Baltic Sea Basin, but also in the resource utilisation of the basin the book will enhance the development of new monitoring strategies and technical device design including satellite observation methods, the establishment of international research laboratories, innovative topics for interdisciplinary research projects, etc.
Reviews
From the reviews:
“Chapters in the book will be of interest not only for geologists but also for representatives of other disciplines (e.g. biology, ecology, oceanography) working in the Baltic Sea region and also in other areas. … The combination of good reviews and original studies with an interdisciplinary approach makes the book potentially useful for advanced students, especially from the Baltic Sea region, and marine geologists dealing with semi-enclosed seas elsewhere in the world will certainly find valuable information.” (Witold Szczucinski, Sedimentary Record, February, 2013)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Jan Harff is a geologists and Professor emeritus for Marine Geology at the Leibniz-Institute for Baltic Sea Research, Warnemünde, Germany. Currently, he serves as Humboldt Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Szczecin, Poland, and as adjunct Professor at two research institutes of the Academica sinica. He is a elected Foreign Member of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences and the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences. His main fields of interest are marine geology, sedimentology, paleoceanography and mathematical geology.
Svante Björck is Professor and head of Quaternary Sciences at the GeoBiosphere Science Centre in Lund. His main research interests concern paleoclimate and paleoenvironments, including sea levels, of the last 150.000 years. He is an elected member of the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences, of the Royal Fysiographic Society. He was internationally evaluated 2006 by VR as ‘Outstanding Swedish Quaternary Geologist’, chosen as the “Geologist of the Year” (Årets Geolog) in 2006 by Sveriges Naturvetarförbund.
Peer Hoth is a geologist with a Ph.D. from the Technical University in Berlin. He works now since two years for the energy department of the German Ministry of Economics and Technology. Before, he served as a research scientist for different research institutions mainly in the field of energy. His main field of interest are basin analysis, sedimentology, oil and gas exploration and geothermal energy.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Baltic Sea Basin
Editors: Jan Harff, Svante Björck, Peer Hoth
Series Title: Central and Eastern European Development Studies (CEEDES)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-17220-5
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2011
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-17219-9Published: 11 May 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-51897-7Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-17220-5Published: 15 April 2011
Series ISSN: 1614-032X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 449
Topics: Physical Geography, Ecotoxicology, Geology