scholarly journals Dynamic adaptations of the Mesolithic pioneers of Gotland in the Baltic Sea

2020 ◽  
Vol 47 ◽  
pp. 6-26
Author(s):  
Jan Apel ◽  
Jan Storå
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Raw Material ◽  
Marine Resources ◽  
The Baltic Sea ◽  
Subsistence Economy ◽  
Local Adaptations ◽  
The Baltic ◽  
Increases In Risk ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Stable Isotope Data

Mesolithic pioneers reached Gotland around 9200 cal BP and adopted seal-hunting. The subsistence economy was flexible, and the importance of freshwater fish is reflected in the location of settlements and available stable isotope data. Overgrowing lakes provided an important subsistence base, and marine resources were mainly related to raw material needs. The narrower breadth of resources is reflected in the osseous production, where implements were made from seal bones. The lithic technology exhibits local adaptations over time – in the form of a simplification of the technology – that we relate to sedentism and increases in risk management and external networks.

scholarly journals Criteria System of Emergency Situations Risks Assessment in the Baltic Sea Ports

2017 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 275-281
Author(s):  
Darius Bazaras ◽  
Ramūnas Palšaitis ◽  
Artūras Petraška ◽  
Andrejs Zvaigzne
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Baltic Sea ◽  
Objective Evaluation ◽  
The Baltic Sea ◽  
Emergency Situations ◽  
Transportation Risk ◽  
Multiple Criteria Evaluation ◽  
Sea Ports ◽  
Risks Assessment ◽  
The Baltic

Abstract This paper reviews the principles of transportation risk assessment in the Baltic Sea ports and hinterland. The essential steps of assessment are the identification of primary criterions, the determining the underlying criterion groups and quantitative assessment of international environment indicators and nature, infrastructure indicators and organizational indicators on the basis of the multiple-criteria evaluation methods. Designed system of criteria creates a possibility for objective evaluation of risk management processes and allows planning objectively long-term risk management strategy in the ports according to certain economic development circumstances.

Intersecting Generations: Burying the Old in a Neolithic Hunter-fisher Community

2013 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 227-239 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fredrik Fahlander
Keyword(s):  
Old Age ◽  
Social Dimensions ◽  
The Baltic Sea ◽  
The Past ◽  
Composite Approach ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Baltic ◽  
Changes Over Time ◽  
Diet And Lifestyle ◽  
Over Time

This article explores the potential of studying the social dimensions of old age and aged bodies in the past. Because old age is relative to life-expectancy figures, diet and lifestyle, calendric years are avoided when defining old age. Instead a composite approach is advocated that includes, for example, traces of wear and joint diseases to identify a threshold between adulthood and a period of seniority. The approach is applied to the Middle Neolithic burial ground Ajvide on the island of Gotland in the Baltic Sea. Eleven individuals (six men, five women, or 18 per cent of the 62 analysed burials) are regarded as ‘aged bodies’. At Ajvide a majority of these individuals are buried in graves that overlap earlier burials containing younger individuals of the same sex. It is argued that this pattern is due to eschatological ideas of ‘generational merging’ of bodies. This practice changes over time, which is suggested to be a part of the overall hybridization processes at the site.

scholarly journals THE EFFECTS OF THE COMMON FISHERIES POLICY ON THE THEORY OF THE AVAILABILITY OF MARINE RESOURCES

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1 (32)) ◽  
pp. 21-33
Author(s):  
Magdalena Gielo-Politewicz
Keyword(s):  
Jel Classification ◽  
Fish Populations ◽  
Marine Resources ◽  
The Baltic Sea ◽  
Fish Stocks ◽  
Fish Schools ◽  
Fishing Sector ◽  
Fisheries Policy ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Baltic

The aim of the paper is to present issues connected with responsibility in the fishery industry. The paper discusses the ‘tragedy of common.’ An attempt was made to formulate proposals for how to increase the efficiency of marine resource management and reduce the problem of declining fisheries. The publication analyses the current Common Fisheries Policy in the context of overfishing. It will take a great deal of serious effort for fishermen, scientists and politicians to solve the problem of the Baltic Sea. The rebirth of fish stocks will create healthier ecosystems and greater reproduction of fish populations. A higher number of fish schools may result in more balanced catch figures. It is expected that profits will increase and thereby result in more jobs and higher salaries, leading to a greater overall profitability of the fishing sector. JEL classification: Q 22

The Supply and Consumption of Marine Resources at the Inland Center of Caylán, Coastal Ancash

2020 ◽  
pp. 188-217
Author(s):  
David Chicoine ◽  
Carol Rojas ◽  
Víctor Vásquez ◽  
Teresa Rosales
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Animals ◽  
Urban Site ◽  
North Coast ◽  
Marine Resources ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Subsistence Economy ◽  
Animal Products ◽  
Multiple Networks ◽  
Early Horizon ◽  
Over Time

Chapter 7 reviews results of zooarchaeological research at Caylán, a large Early Horizon center located 15 km inland in the Nepeña valley on the Peruvian north coast. This dense, urban site was occupied in the Nepeña Phase (800–450 cal BC) the Samanco Phase (450–150 cal BC). Much of the plant and animal food was supplied by external producers or foragers. Marine resources were always important at the site but over time the inhabitants increasingly relied on domestic animals. The authors see little evidence for top-down control of the subsistence economy; animal products moved through multiple networks structured by kinship and other exchange mechanisms.

scholarly journals Ice Loads on Structures in the Baltic Environment

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jørgen S. Steenfelt
Keyword(s):  
Compressive Strength ◽  
Case Histories ◽  
The Baltic Sea ◽  
Baltic Sea Region ◽  
Design Loads ◽  
Ice Loads ◽  
Ice Strength ◽  
The Baltic ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Over Time

For offshore, nearshore and harbour structures ice loading is often a decisive ULS load. However, the Code requirements, the regulations and design practices vary considerably across the Baltic Sea region and beyond. This result in incommensurable values of the compressive strength of the ice and the resulting recommended/prescribed design loads. The paper examines these differences over time and in-between countries and elucidates the effects on the design for a number of case histories. The Danish rules show a pronounced trend of increasing values of compressive ice strength (five-fold from 1945 to 2015). Surprisingly, this is commensurate with the trend of less severe winters with time. In conclusion, the Danish code requirements need critical review to better match reality and to reduce the cost of foundation structures subject to ice loading.

scholarly journals Cost–benefit analysis of beach-cast harvest: Closing land-marine nutrient loops in the Baltic Sea region

AMBIO ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tore Söderqvist ◽  
Hanna Nathaniel ◽  
Daniel Franzén ◽  
Frida Franzén ◽  
Linus Hasselström ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Baltic Sea ◽  
Cost Benefit Analysis ◽  
Cost Benefit ◽  
Raw Material ◽  
Benefit Analysis ◽  
The Baltic Sea ◽  
Local Conditions ◽  
Marine System ◽  
The Baltic ◽  
Beach Cast

AbstractHarvesting beach-cast can help mitigate marine eutrophication by closing land-marine nutrient loops and provide a blue biomass raw material for the bioeconomy. Cost–benefit analysis was applied to harvest activities during 2009–2018 on the island of Gotland in the Baltic Sea, highlighting benefits such as nutrient removal from the marine system and improved recreational opportunities as well as costs of using inputs necessary for harvest. The results indicate that the activities entailed a net gain to society, lending substance to continued funding for harvests on Gotland and assessments of upscaling of harvest activities to other areas in Sweden and elsewhere. The lessons learnt from the considerable harvest experience on Gotland should be utilized for developing concrete guidelines for carrying out sustainable harvest practice, paying due attention to local conditions but also to what can be generalized to a wider national and international context.

Temporal and spatial sedimentation rate variabilities in the eastern Gotland Basin, the Baltic Sea

Boreas ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian Christiansen ◽  
Helmar Kunzendorf ◽  
Kay-Christian Emeis ◽  
Rudolf Endler ◽  
Ulrich Struck ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Baltic Sea ◽  
Sedimentation Rate ◽  
The Baltic Sea ◽  
Gotland Basin ◽  
Temporal And Spatial ◽  
The Baltic
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