Abstract

This paper presents a theoretical and methodological review of the literature relevant for the management of eutrophicated coastal ecosystems. First, we define a coastal ecosystem and argue that coastal ecosystem pollution is characterised by multiple, interacting, heterogeneous emissions at different, interdependent locations. We pay special attention to the fact that pollutant transports and transformations are stochastic due to variations in weather and other natural processes. In the second part of the paper we review various methodological aspects. First we characterise the basic approach which usually comes down to minimising total costs subject to a restriction on the loads of a single pollutant in a static setting. Next we consider various extensions, notably in terms of geographical scale, dynamics, multiple pollutants and uncertainty. Finally, we introduce the papers that make up the special issue. (C) 2003 Elsevier B.V All rights reserved.

Keywords

eutrophication; coastal ecosystems; interacting pollutants; uncertainty; methodology; Baltic Sea

Published in

Ecological Economics
2003, Volume: 47, number: 1, pages: 1-11

SLU Authors

• Elofsson, Katarina

  • Department of Economics, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    

UKÄ Subject classification

Economics and Business
Environmental Sciences related to Agriculture and Land-use
Fish and Aquacultural Science


Publication identifier

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2003.09.001

Permanent link to this page (URI)

https://res.slu.se/id/publ/44585