Land cover and population density in the Baltic Sea drainage basin: A GIS database

Ambio

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 191-198

  Sweitzer, Julie ^a,b   Langaas, Sindre ^c,d   Folke, Carl ^d,e  

^a Beijer Intl Inst of Ecol Econ

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNEP/Grid Arendal ^*

^d STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e ROYAL SWEDISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTION PATTERN; GIS; LAND COVER; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION;

BALTIC SEA;

EID: 0029794969     PISSN: 00447447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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25. We sincerely appreciate the goodwill and help from all individuals, institutes and organisations around the Baltic Sea and overseas with providing the data. They are simply too many to be mentioned here, but are acknowledged in Langaas and Sweitzer (9). We have received constructive comments from Robert Costanza and Valentina Krysanova. This work is a part of the Baltic Drainage Basin Project approved by the EU Environment Research Programme 1991-1994. The funding for the Beijer Institute's part of this research was provided from the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency (SNV) and the Swedish Council for Planning and Coordination of Research (FRN). The GRID-Arendal was funded by the Norwegian Research Council. Carl Folke's work was partly supported by a grant from the Swedish Council for Forestry and Agricultural Research (SJFR).
26. First submitted 8 May 1995. Accepted for publication after revision 29 August 1995.