@article{035d565d22df43a0a56575f586f8946c,
title = "Climate change and the governance of the Baltic Sea environment",
abstract = "This article expands the discussion of Baltic Sea environmental governance by examining the implications of climate change on governance. It scrutinizes the physical challenges posed by climate change and analyses how the existing governing system can meet these challenges. The findings indicate that the present governing system is limited and cannot capture future changes and feedback effects. Therefore, this article recommends that multiple governance approaches should be explored. Management practices should be cross-sectoral and flexible, based both on the recognition of past experiences and all types of knowledge, including scientific but also local. Further interdisciplinary research can guide this process.",
keywords = "Baltic Sea, Baltic Sea time machine, challenges, climate change, research agenda",
author = "Savitri Jetoo and Nina Tynkkynen and Marko Joas and Magnus Hellstr{\"o}m and Conny Sj{\"o}qvist and Anna T{\"o}rnroos",
note = "Funding Information: Scaling up is not the only alternative, though. In many cases, scaling down to the local level is key, especially in terms of the facilitation of public engagement and public acceptability of governance measures but possibly also in economic terms (Roggero, K{\"a}hler, and Hagen ). In the EU, the principle of subsidiarity in favor of lower governance level autonomy also acts as the primary de jure mechanism for allocating tasks in areas of shared powers, including environmental protection (Jordan and Jeppesen ). In the Baltic Sea region, cities are important and active players in governing climate change in particular and have set their emissions targets and developed adaptation plans (Kern ; Joas 2012; Carbon Disclosure Project ). A high proportion of greenhouse gas emissions are produced in cities, and the impact of climate change become noticeable and tangible at the local level. This work is, however, quite distant from what, for example, the HELCOM does, and is mostly not linked to marine policy objectives. This work falls under the remit of the Union of Baltic Cities (UBC), which is a transnational network of 100 cities in the Baltic Sea region funded by member fees and various EU funding instruments (Jetoo ). The UBC conducts its work through seven commissions, including the sustainable cities commission located in Turku, Finland. Through this commission, the UBC is working with key partners in the EU funded (DG ECHO funding 2019–2020) Cascade project (Community safety action for supporting climate adaptation and development), which aims to build local capacity to climate change related risks (UBC ). Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2021 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.",
year = "2021",
doi = "10.1080/01629778.2021.1989472",
language = "English",
journal = "Journal of Baltic Studies",
issn = "0162-9778",
publisher = "Routledge",
}