The Eco-Region Project: Turning the Baltic Sea Region into the world’s first EcoRegion – an agricultural perspective

Authors

  • Judith Schick Julius Kühn-Institut – Federal Research Institute for Cultivated Plants, Institute for Crop and Soil Science, Braunschweig, Germany
  • Silvia Haneklaus Julius Kühn-Institut – Federal Research Institute for Cultivated Plants, Institute for Crop and Soil Science, Braunschweig, Germany
  • Ewald Schnug Julius Kühn-Institut – Federal Research Institute for Cultivated Plants, Institute for Crop and Soil Science, Braunschweig, Germany

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5073/JfK.2012.01.02

Keywords:

Baltic Sea, Baltic Sea Action Plan, good practice, organic farming, precision agriculture, sustainability

Abstract

Increasing pollution of the Baltic Sea poses a massive problem for the Baltic Sea Region (BSR) and its inhabi­tants. In order to sustainably improve the environmental quality of the BSR, the implementation of adequate good practices is urgently required. Within the framework of the Eco-Region Project, different practices from the sectors agriculture, energy and transport, spatial planning as well as tourism and education are collected in an openly accessible database and at least one of these concrete sustainable development measures will be realised in several model „EcoRegions‟. Good practices for the sector agriculture, which is one major origin of the severe pollution of the Baltic Sea, will be described in this contribution.

 

 

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Published

2012-01-01

Issue

Vol. 64 No. 1 (2012)

Section

Original Article

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