Segerström, Ulf
- Department of Forest Ecology and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Abstract
Establishment of plans for environmental planning and management requires that a number of natural and societal factors must be taken into consideration. Insights into the inherent dynamics of nature as well as the role that past human activities have played for establishing the current condition of the landscape and the natural environment in general are essential. Many natural and man-made changes occur over time scales of decades or centuries, and these are difficult to comprehend without a historical perspective. Such a perspective can be obtained using palaeoecological studies, i.e. by geochemical and biological analyses of lake sediment and peat deposits. To illustrate the long-term dynamics of nature and particularly the role of man, we present here five case studies from Sweden concerning pollution, lake acidification, lake eutrophication, biodiversity, and landscape dynamics and conservation - topics of broad interests - and discuss benefits of including a longer time perspective in environmental management. (C) 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Keywords
Pollution; Acidification; Eutrophication; Vegetation change; Nature conservation; Liming; Environmental planning and management; Palaeoecology
Published in
Journal of Environmental Management
2009, volume: 90, number: 8, pages: 2794-2800
Publisher: ACADEMIC PRESS LTD- ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
SLU Authors
Global goals (SDG)
SDG6 Clean water and sanitation
UKÄ Subject classification
Environmental Management
Publication identifier
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2009.03.008
Permanent link to this page (URI)
https://res.slu.se/id/publ/59908