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Remote sensing for three-dimensional modelling of hydromorphology
(Turun yliopistoAnnales Universitatis Turkuensis A II 302, 2015-05-23)
Successful management of rivers requires an understanding of the fluvial processes that govern them. This, in turn cannot be achieved without a means of quantifying their geomorphology and hydrology and the spatio-temporal ...
Fluvio-morphological processes of meander bends - Combining conventional field measurements, close-range remote sensing and computational modelling
(Turun yliopistoAnnales Universitatis Turkuensis A II 298, 2015-02-21)
Meandering rivers have been perceived to evolve rather similarly around the world independently of the location or size of the river. Despite the many consistent processes and characteristics they have also been noted to ...
Economic Geographical Analysis of The Finnish Paper Industry
(Turun yliopistoAnnales Universitatis Turkuensis A II 263, 2011-10-28)
The purpose of this academic economic geographical dissertation is to study and describe how competitiveness in the Finnish paper industry has developed during 2001–2008. During these years, the Finnish paper industry has ...
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 ...
Meat consumption as a wicked problem : evidence from data and policies
(Turun yliopisto, 2017-12-14)
Sustainable food production and consumption is fundamental to the achievement of the worldwide UN Sustainable Development Goals. For a food system to be sustainable, it needs to provide adequate nutrition and food security ...
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 ...
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. ...
Evolving polycentricities.The development of urban spatial structure in Finnish urban regions
(Turun yliopistoAnnales Universitatis Turkuensis A II 280, 2013-06-07)
Long-term nutrient load management and lake restoration: Case of Säkylän Pyhäjärvi (SW Finland)
(Turun yliopistoAnnales Universitatis Turkuensis A II 286, 2014-02-07)
Eutrophication caused by anthropogenic nutrient pollution has become one of the most severe threats to water bodies. Nutrients enter water bodies from atmospheric precipitation, industrial and domestic wastewaters and ...