Ranjula Bali Swain is a Professor of Economics at the School of Social Science, Södertörn University, Sweden, and a Visiting Professor at Misum (the Mistra Center for Sustainable Markets) at the Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden. She is also affiliated to Uppsala University and the Center for European Research in Microfinance (Cermi) at the Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management. Her main research interests are in environmental economics, microeconometrics and development economics. Bali Swain has a Doctorate in Economics from Uppsala University, and has worked for the International Labour Organisation (ILO), Geneva in the past.

Features contributions from experts in Sweden, Poland and Estonia

Chapter 1: Introduction to the Environmental Challenges in the Baltic Region, Ranjula Bali Swain, Stockholm School of Economics and Södertörn University.- Chapter 2: Cost-effective management of a eutrophicated sea in the presence of uncertain technological development and climate change, Ing-Marie Gren, Department of Economics, SLU, Uppsala, Sweden.- Chapter 3: Public policies towards marine protection - benchmarking Estonia to Finland and Sweden, Tea Nõmmann and Sirje Pädam, Stockholm Environment Institute Tallinn and Tallinn University of Technology.- Chapter 4: The Baltic Sea nutrient policies - a review of policy evaluations, Katarina Elofsson, Swedish Agricultural University, Ultuna, Sweden.- Chapter 5: Environmental impacts of rural landscape change in Baltic Sea region, Kari Lehtilä and Patrik Dinnetz, School of Natural Sciences, Technology and Environmental Studies, Södertörn University.- Chapter 6: Developing and testing a decision model supporting approval processes of wind power establishments, Stig Blomskog, School of Social Sciences Södertörn University.- Chapter 7: Behavioral Responses to Cyanobacterial Blooms, Jenny Wallström, Analysis Expert, Enveco Environment Economics AB.- Chapter 8: Attitudes to paying for environmental protection in a cross country setting, Sirje Pädam, Tallinn University of Technology and Ranjula Bali Swain, Stockholm School of Economics & Södertörn University.- Chapter 9: Environmental Resilience in the Baltic Region, Chuan-Zhong Li, Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics and Uppsala University.- Chapter 10: Is international cooperation in the Baltic Sea drainage basin possible? Tomasz Zylicz, Director, Warsaw Ecological Economics Center, University of Warsaw, Poland.

This book explores environmental challenges in the Baltic region from an economic perspective. Featuring contributions from regional experts from Nordic, Baltic and Eastern European countries it addresses the response to eutrophication caused by increased loads of nutrients to the sea from agriculture, wastewater, industry and traffic, and cost-effective solutions to reach the Baltic Sea Action Plan (BSAP) targets, set up through the Helsinki Commission (HELCOM). Contributions also explore the environmental impacts of rural landscape change during the post-communist period in the Baltic Sea region and a review of the ex-post evaluations of the costs and benefits generated by Baltic Sea nutrient abatement policies. Public policies towards marine protection, wind power establishment, and attitudes to paying for environmental protection, environmental resilience and the international cooperation in the Baltic region are also discussed.