[HTML][HTML] How to value biodiversity in environmental management?

M Laurila-Pant, A Lehikoinen, L Uusitalo… - Ecological …, 2015 - Elsevier
Biodiversity is globally recognised as a cornerstone of healthy ecosystems, and biodiversity
conservation is increasingly becoming one of the important aims of environmental …

A probabilistic approach for a cost-benefit analysis of oil spill management under uncertainty: a Bayesian network model for the Gulf of Finland

I Helle, H Ahtiainen, E Luoma, M Hänninen… - Journal of environmental …, 2015 - Elsevier
Large-scale oil accidents can inflict substantial costs to the society, as they typically result in
expensive oil combating and waste treatment operations and have negative impacts on …

[HTML][HTML] The role of the spatial resolution of a three-dimensional hydrodynamic model for marine transport risk assessment

O Andrejev, T Soomere, A Sokolov, K Myrberg - Oceanologia, 2011 - Elsevier
The paper addresses the sensitivity of a novel method for quantifying the environmental
risks associated with the current-driven transport of adverse impacts released from offshore …

Species and habitats in danger: estimating the relative risk posed by oil spills in the northern Baltic Sea

I Helle, A Jolma, R Venesjärvi - Ecosphere, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Large‐scale oil spills can have adverse effects on biodiversity in coastal areas where
maritime oil transportation is intense. In this article we conducted a spatial risk assessment …

Investigating the Marine Protected Areas most at risk of current-driven pollution in the Gulf of Finland, the Baltic Sea, using a Lagrangian transport model

NC Delpeche-Ellmann, T Soomere - Marine pollution bulletin, 2013 - Elsevier
The possibility of current-driven propagation of contaminants released along a major fairway
polluting the Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) in the Gulf of Finland, the Baltic Sea, is …

The potential of current-and wind-driven transport for environmental management of the Baltic Sea

T Soomere, K Döös, A Lehmann, HEM Meier… - Ambio, 2014 - Springer
The ever increasing impact of the marine industry and transport on vulnerable sea areas
puts the marine environment under exceptional pressure and calls for inspired methods for …

Usefulness of high resolution coastal models for operational oil spill forecast: the" Full City" accident

G Broström, A Carrasco, LR Hole, S Dick… - Ocean …, 2011 - os.copernicus.org
Oil spill modeling is considered to be an important part of a decision support system (DeSS)
for oil spill combatment and is useful for remedial action in case of accidents, as well as for …

Impact of horizontal eddy diffusivity on Lagrangian statistics for coastal pollution from a major marine fairway

B Viikmäe, T Torsvik, T Soomere - Ocean Dynamics, 2013 - Springer
Lagrangian trajectory methods are often applied as deterministic transport models, where
transport is due strictly to advection without taking into account stochastic elements of …

Recent change—marine circulation and stratification

J Elken, A Lehmann, K Myrberg - … assessment of climate change for the …, 2015 - Springer
This chapter describes recent change in the circulation and stratification of the Baltic Sea. A
recent warming trend in sea-surface waters has been clearly demonstrated by in situ …

Identification of the environmentally safe fairway in the South-Western Baltic Sea and Kattegat

X Lu, T Soomere, EV Stanev, J Murawski - Ocean Dynamics, 2012 - Springer
Application of the preventive techniques for the optimisation of fairways in the south-western
Baltic Sea and the Kattegat in terms of protection of the coastal regions against current …