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Oil transportation in the Baltic Sea and Gulf of Finland poses transnational risks to the marine environment. Maritime oil transportation is also vulnerable to security threats, an area of less attention in the Baltic Sea. Traditionally, improvements to maritime safety regulation have realized only after major accidents. Post-accident policies are not very comprehensive and may be biased by the ch ...
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Baltic Sea Region Climate Change Adaptation Strategy (BALTADAPT)

Start date: Jun 10, 2010, End date: Sep 9, 2013,

The BSR countries are all threatened and concerned by climate change. It will influence precipitation amounts and patterns, lead to an increase in terrestrial and ocean temperatures and a rise in sea levels. The resulting changes will jeopardize the integrity of the ecosystem and increase risks caused by natural disasters. There are good experiences of adaptation in the region but they are somehow ...
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The Nordic tradition of weather radar networking is transnational by its very nature. The main stage project developed this further by creating the world's most advanced international weather radar network. The BALTRAD network is decentralized, preserving the partnership's transnational integrity. In practice this means that each partner exchanges data from its weather radars with other partners o ...
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There is a general concern about the state and the future of the Baltic Sea. The most alarming issue is eutrophication, but also alien species, and oil and chemical freighting present serious threats to the region. Some political steps in national and EU-level to react to the challenge have been taken. In order to change the course joint actions and shared responsibility are needed. In addition to ...
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...ect has achieved to include all data from all weather radars in each country in the partnership. Weather radar data are available on line in real time in the BALTRAD network: 12 Swedish, 8 Finnish, 2 Estonian, 1 Latvian, 1 Belarus, 8 Polish, and 5 Danish radars. This puts an end-user in the position to either observe the situation in the Baltic Sea region as a whole or to zoom into his area of int ...
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paredness to Environmental Accidents (PREAC)

Start date: Aug 31, 2006, End date: Dec 30, 2007,

A multidisciplinary course (6 ECTS) will be planned and carried out in order to upgrade professional skills of Finnish and Estonian environmental experts in the field of meteorology and hydrology, as well as relevant authorities in connection with environmental accidents e.g. oil and chemical spillages at the sea, dispersion of dangerous gases and nuclear power accidents. One of the main purposes ...
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