Geoffrey Gooch

Environmental Beliefs and Attitudes in Sweden and the Baltic States

This article compares environmental beliefs and attitudes in Estonia, Latvia, and Sweden. It is based on interviews in Tartu, Estonia, and Riga, Latvia, and on an extract from a postal survey in the county of Östergötland, Sweden. Four scales were used in the study: the new environmental paradigm (NEP) scale, a scale to measure support for science and technology, a scale to measure postmaterial values, and a scale to measure concern for local environmental problems. The expected correlations between support for the NEP, distrust of science and technology, postmaterial values, and concern for environmental conditions were only partially supported by the results of the Swedish study, and, in the case of the Baltic samples, not at all. A fourth explanatory factor—that environmental concern can be based either on direct personal experience of the environment, or on symbolic general representations of reported global problems-is used to explain these discrepancies.

Integrated Transboundary Water Management in Theory and Practice : Experiences from the New EU Eastern borders

This book examines and analyses the problems inherent in integrated water management in transboundary conditions. Integrated Transboundary Water Management in Theory and Practice provides new knowledge and policy recommendations based on the experiences and results of a major 3-year interdisciplinary research project (MANTRA-East). Drawing on extensive studies of the Lake Peipsi region in Estonia and Russia, the book explores the political and social issues surrounding transboundary water management and introduces the way that qualitative-quantitative-qualitative scenarios have been used in real-life situations. The book presents conclusions and policy recommendations for integrated transboundary water management that will be invaluable to water managers, policy-makers and academic researchers working in this rapidly expanding field. This title belongs to Water Research Foundation Report Series ISBN: 9781843390848 (Print) ISBN: 9781780402383 (eBook)

An integrated Pan-European perspective on coastal Lagoons management through a mosaic-DPSIR approach.

A decision support framework for the management of lagoon ecosystems was tested using four European Lagoons: Ria de Aveiro (Portugal), Mar Menor (Spain), Tyligulskyi Liman (Ukraine) and Vistula Lagoon (Poland/Russia). Our aim was to formulate integrated management recommendations for European lagoons. To achieve this we followed a DPSIR (Drivers-Pressures-State Change-Impacts-Responses) approach, with focus on integrating aspects of human wellbeing, welfare and ecosystem sustainability. The most important drivers in each lagoon were identified, based on information gathered from the lagoons’ stakeholders, complemented by scientific knowledge on each lagoon as seen from a land-sea perspective. The DPSIR cycles for each driver were combined into a mosaic-DPSIR conceptual model to examine the interdependency between the multiple and interacting uses of the lagoon. This framework emphasizes the common links, but also the specificities of responses to drivers and the ecosystem services provided. The information collected was used to formulate recommendations for the sustainable management of lagoons within a Pan-European context. Several common management recommendations were proposed, but specificities were also identified. The study synthesizes the present conditions for the management of lagoons, thus analysing and examining the activities that might be developed in different scenarios, scenarios which facilitate ecosystem protection without compromising future generations.

The Baltic Press and the Environment. A study of the coverage of environmental problems in Estonian and Latvian newspapers 1992-1993

The Baltic Press and the Environment. A study of the coverage of environmental problems in Estonian and Latvian newspapers 1992-1993

From Dialogue to Trialogue: Sustainable Ecosystem Governance and Civil Society

This chapter discusses the role of institutions, both formal and informal, in ecosystem governance. The role of different forms of knowledge, and the ways in which these can be combined, are analysed, as is the role of civil society in ecosystem policy processes. Organisational structures, their aims, norms and values, are examined and the problems of cooperation between different institutional cultures are analysed. The chapter presents a number of Trialogues in the context of sustainability, epistemology, and policy processes, and discusses their relevance for ecosystem governance. Finally, a number of recommendations for future research are made.

Integrated Water Resources Management : STRIVER efforts to assess the current status and future possibilities in four river basins

The contemporary concept of Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) was primarily conceived for the purpose of promoting sustainable water management. There are many elements included in modern IWRM perceptions, e.g., natural resource utilization planning combined with at strategy to balance between social, economic and environmental objectives based on an overall sustainability concept. However, the concept behind IWRM is not new. The historical development of the concept of Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) can be found in Rahaman and Varis (2005).

Environmental Policy in the Baltic States of Estonia and Latvia

Abstract Three major kinds of strategies are envisaged in Latvia and Estonia as ways of improving the environment; these are based on economical, legislative and technological measures. In this paper, environmental problems and policies in the Baltic States are examined, together with the results of a survey of the publics attitude to environmental management. The results indicate dissatisfaction with the state of the environment, and discontent with the way in which environmental issues are managed. The public felt that they were not well‐informed about policy questions and, of the available sources of information, the mass‐media was most important. The public also felt that very little reliable information on environmental issues was obtained from politicians and local authorities.

Integrating Water Resources Management: Interdisciplinary Methodologies and Strategies in Practice

The strategy and methodology for improved IWRM project, (STRIVER) has developed interdisciplinary methods to assess and implement IWRM. Based on the development of a multidisciplinary knowledge base assessment in all case studies (policy, social and natural sciences) and an early stage development of IWRM conceptual framework, this book investigates IWRM in the four selected twinned catchments covering six countries in Europe and Asia. Twinning activities based on a problem-based approach have been performed in four case river basins: The problems covered are water regimes in transboundary regulated rivers; environmental flow; land and water use interaction; and pollution under the IWRM framework. The research used sub-basins of each river basin in all cases to allow more detailed studies and easier integration of all stakeholders, for transferability purposes. This title belongs to European Water Research Series . Integrating Water Resources Management ISBN: 9781843393252 (Print) ISBN: 9781780401461 (eBook)

Sustainability as a Centrally-induced Swedish Local Discourse

The gradual emergence of “sustainable development” as the bearing concept in the international co-operation on environment and development was a process taking place during almost two decades preceding the World Commission on Environment and Development, WCED (the Brundtland Commission) and its report Our Common Future 1, published in 1987 (Box 1).

The Transfer of Technology from Great Britain to Sweden 1825–1850: —a study of the international diffusion of machine technology

During the first half of the nineteenth century presumptive Swedish manufacturers were eager to obtain new industrial technology, and they sought to import tools and machinery from the industrialized countries of Europe. The authors have traced the import of machine-tools to Sweden during the years 1825 to 1850, and mapped the diffusion of that technology within Sweden. It is shown that Britain was the predominant supplier of technology to Sweden, and that the city of Gothenburg was the principal entry point for the inflow of machinery. The destination for much of the imported technology was Gothenburgs hinterland, although technology was also dispersed from that port to locations in the whole of southern Sweden. Among the inland receivers of technology the mechanical workshop at Motala was the most significant. This paper contends that the technology imported was not the most advanced available, and that the Swedish workshops failed to utilize the advances in machine-tool technology which were achieved by British engineers in the first decades of the nineteenth century. The study is based on analyses of archival material in Sweden and Britain.