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Keidas - Urban Oases: Shaping a Sustainable Future through Environmentally Functional Landscape Features (Urban Oases)

Start date: Jun 1, 2012, End date: Dec 31, 2017,

Background Watersheds in urban environments are largely invisible and altered from their natural state. Widespread impervious surfaces, such as concrete and asphalt, and underground stormwater sewer networks have adversely altered watershed boundaries and lead to the rapid flow of untreated stormwater and snowmelt water into receiving bodies of water. Bec ...
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Improving environmental assessment by adopting good practices and tools of multi-criteria decision analysis (IMPERIA)

Start date: Aug 1, 2012, End date: Dec 31, 2015,

Background Multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) has emerged as a formal methodology for fusing available technical information and stakeholder values to support decision-making in many fields. MCDA has many characteristics, such as the integration of diverse information and the handling of conflicting objectives, which make it a useful tool for suppor ...
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An innovative tool for improving the competitiveness of community based tourism (Comcot)

Start date: Oct 31, 2010, End date: Sep 30, 2013,

Tourism is seen as a main income source in many rural areas with strategies stressing new sustainable, high quality market orientated products linked locally, regionally & internationally. Few SMEs can provide all that is demanded in the markets thus necessitating cooperation & joint marketing with other SMEs & actors in their area. However, tourism development initiatives mostly target SMEs, lead ...
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Participatory monitoring, forecasting, control and socio-economic impacts of eutrophication and algal blooms in river basins districts (GISBLOOM)

Start date: Oct 1, 2010, End date: Sep 30, 2013,

Background Eutrophication and algal blooms in lakes, rivers and estuaries constitute a major environmental challenge. This is a particular problem in Finland’s inland and coastal waters, which do not currently meet environmental standards despite increasing efforts to reduce nutrient loading in river basins. Climate change may exacerbate this situation ...
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Climate Change: Impacts, Costs and Adaptation in the Baltic Sea Region (BaltCICA)

Start date: Dec 31, 2008, End date: Jan 23, 2012,

Climate change was recognized not only in terms of mitigation but also because of the need of adaptation as a major challenge that cannot be solved solely by single actors and territorial restricted actions, but asks for a coordination and support at a higher level. This is highlighted by the EU Green Paper on Adaptation to Climate Change, but also by other documents such as the EC Thematic Strate ...
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moting Spatial Development by Creating COMon MINdscapes (COMMIN)

Start date: Aug 31, 2004, End date: Aug 30, 2007,

Transnational and cross-border co-operation have a growing need (e.g. EU-enlargement) for a precise understanding of the partner’s concepts and the planning systems they are embedded in. The improvement of solving similar problems in different BSR countries and on transnational activities can best be achieved by exchange of experiences and ideas, mutual training and further education as well as pr ...
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Management of wetlands along the Gulf of Finland migratory flyway (Gulf of Finland)

Start date: Jul 1, 2003, End date: Jun 30, 2007,

Background Along the flyway of Northern Coastal Gulf of Finland, waterfowl and waders wintering in the southern part of the Baltic Sea and the coasts of the North Sea migrate in the spring to their breeding regions and in the autumn back to their wintering regions. The 12 project areas along the flyway are internationally valuable bird-rich wetlands in wh ...
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Baltic Ecological Recycling Agriculture and Society (BERAS )

Start date: Feb 28, 2003, End date: Mar 30, 2006,

The goal of the project was the evaluation and demonstration of the potential of ecological recycling-based agriculture, combined with priority for local and regional processing, distribution and consumption, in order to reduce consumption of limited resources, emissions of greenhouse gases and nitrogen and phosphorus pollution to the Baltic Sea area by half or more, according to politically decid ...
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Integrated river basin management - a network for optimized water management, rehabilitation and protection of aquatic ecosystems in Karjaanjoki area (Innowa (KarjaanjokiLIFE))

Start date: Apr 1, 2001, End date: Mar 31, 2005,

Background The Karjaanjoki River basin (2050 km²) consists of numerous lakes, rivers and brooks of various types and sizes, which cover 12% of the river basin area in total. The river basin is characterised by the large Lakes Lohjanjärvi (92 km²) and Hiidenvesi (29 km²). In addition, the numerous small lakes and clear-watered rivers form a beautiful m ...
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