The environmental status of the Baltic Sea in the 1940s, today, and in the future

Ambio

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 312-319

  Jansson, Bengt Owe ^a   Dahlberg, Kristina ^b,c  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b Ministry of the Environment   (Sweden)

^c Baltic 21 Secretariat   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EUTROPHICATION; MARINE POLLUTION; NUTRIENT ENRICHMENT; POLLUTION CONTROL;

BALTIC SEA;

EID: 0032809309     PISSN: 00447447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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48. We are most grateful to our referees: Professor Ragnar Elmgren, Stockholm University and Professor Åke Niemi, Helsinki University for valuable comments on the manuscript. Financial support are acknowledged from: ICC Swedish: Foundation CN-70. Stockholm; EU-Programme "Environment and Climate": The Baltic Basin Case Study, contract ENV-CT96-0269, and the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency, contract 011-083-98-01.
49. First submitted 10 February 1999. Accepted for publication after revision 19 April 1999.