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Adaptability, Transformation and Complex Changes in Namibia and Tanzania: Resilience and Innovation System Development in Local Communities
(Turun yliopistoAnnales Universitatis Turkuensis A II 321, 2016-08-19)
This thesis is a research about the recent complex spatial changes in Namibia and Tanzania and local communities’ capacity to cope with, adapt to and transform the unpredictability engaged to these processes. I scrutinise ...
Modelling ecological values in heterogeneous and dynamic landscapes with geospatial data
(Turun yliopistoAnnales Universitatis Turkuensis A II 317, 2016-06-03)
Our surrounding landscape is in a constantly dynamic state, but recently the rate of changes and their effects on the environment have considerably increased. In terms of the impact on nature, this development has not been ...
Sediment movement in cold-region fluvial environments: Monitoring flow-sediment interaction from rivers to estuaries
(Turun yliopisto, 2022-06-11)
Comprehensive studies reflecting sediment flux in seasonal cold-region fluvial environments via local sediment processes are rare in the literature. To understand sediment flux, flow-sediment interaction needs to be studied ...
Human and climate-induced changes in boreal varve characteristics and preservation
(Turun yliopisto, 2022-05-13)
Recent variations in varve preservation and characteristics were recorded from Lakes Lehmilampi, Vesijärvi, Kallio-Kourujärvi, Kantele, Kuninkaisenlampi, and Linnanlampi to examine how varve formation, preservation, and ...
Spatiotemporal Aspects of Environmental Monitoring in the Complex Coastal Region of Southwest Finland
(Turun yliopisto, 2008-06-16)
The management and conservation of coastal waters in the Baltic is challenged by a number of complex environmental problems, including eutrophication and habitat degradation. Demands for a more holistic, integrated and ...
The European Union and Assembling Biofuel Development – topological investigations concerning the associations between law, policy and space
(Turun yliopistoAnnales Universitatis Turkuensis A II 294, 2014-10-15)
Biofuels for transport are a renewable source of energy that were once heralded as a solution to multiple problems associated with poor urban air quality, the overproduction of agricultural commodities, the energy security ...
Lithostratigraphy and age of pre-Late Weichselian sediments in the Suupohja area, western Finland
(Turun yliopistoAnnales Universitatis Turkuensis A II 284, 2013-10-25)
Different types of laterally extensive sand- and gravel-dominated deposits, up to several
tens of metres thick, were investigated in the Suupohja area of western Finland. The
studied sediments were deposited in glacial, ...
The Sensitivity of Annually Laminated Lake Sediments in Central and Eastern Finland to the Late Holocene Climate
(Turun yliopistoAnnales Universitatis Turkuensis A II 331, 2017-06-12)
This dissertation discusses sedimentary varve formation and Late Holocene paleoenvironmental and climatic variation. Varved sediment records from five lakes in central and eastern Finland were studied. ...
Past, present and future - assessing changes in aquatic environments using subfossil diatoms
(Turun yliopistoAnnales Universitatis Turkuensis A II 250, 2010-06-10)
The deterioration of surface waters is one of the most important issues in the environmental management of the European Union. Thus, the EU Water Framework Directive 2000/60/EC (WFD) requires “good ecological and chemical ...
Characteristics of urban heat island (UHI) in a high latitude coastal city - a case study of Turku, SW Finland
(Turun yliopistoAnnales Universitatis Turkuensis A II 295, 2014-11-21)
The term urban heat island (UHI) refers to the common situation in which the city is warmer than its rural surroundings. In this dissertation, the local climate, and especially the UHI, of the coastal city of Turku (182,000 ...