Environmental history: A piece in the puzzle for establishing plans for environmental management |
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Authors: | Ingemar Renberg,Christian Bigler,Richard Bindler,Matilda Norberg,Johan Rydberg,Ulf Segerströ m |
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Affiliation: | 1. Department of Ecology and Environmental Science, Umeå University, SE-901 87 Umeå, Sweden;2. Department of Forest Ecology and Management, SLU, SE-901 83 Umeå, Sweden |
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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. |
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Keywords: | Pollution Acidification Eutrophication Vegetation change Nature conservation Liming Environmental planning and management Palaeoecology |
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