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THE QUALITY OF GOVERNANCE IN TRANSITION COUNTRIES

open access: yesEkonomia i Prawo, 2010
The purpose of this paper is to analyze changes in governance in transition countries and to evaluate their distance to high-income OECD countries. Six variables that consist on governance were analyzed.
Dawid Piątek
doaj   +1 more source

Weichselian history of the Fennoscandian Ice Sheet centre, Kvarken archipelago, western Finland—flow shifts, thermal regime and deglaciation

open access: yesBoreas, EarlyView.
Rapid thaw of the Earth's cryosphere in response to anthropogenic warming highlights the need to identify and understand the contrasting signatures of past ice‐sheet stability and collapse. The Kvarken archipelago, western Finland, at the centre of the former Fennoscandian Ice Sheet (FIS), has been designated a UNESCO World Heritage site in recognition
Niko Putkinen   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Regional Coordination Group North Atlantic, North Sea & Eastern Arctic and Regional Coordination Group Baltic. 2023

open access: yes, 2023
The overall aim for RCG NANSEA and RCG Baltic is to review the status of current issues, achievements and developments of regional coordination and identify future needs in line with DCF regulation (EU 1004/2017) requirements and the wider European ...
RCG NANSEA RCG Baltic
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Ethnic structure of the population of the Southern Obonezhye at the end of the XV century

open access: yesФинно-угорский мир, 2019
Introduction. On the southern coast of Lake Onega there is a significant layer of Baltic-Finnish geographical names. The medieval ethnic history of this region remains poorly understood.
Boris I. Chibisov
doaj   +1 more source

Palaeoenvironmental and climatic changes from the lateglacial of the Saalian to the Late Weichselian in central Poland: a multiproxy study from Józefów

open access: yesBoreas, EarlyView.
Józefów site is a case study which provides a detailed record of environmental and climate changes and confirms the main traces of the landscape morphogenesis of the Late Pleistocene established in central‐eastern Europe. This study presents a multiproxy reconstruction of palaeoenvironment under variable climatic conditions from the retreat of the ...
Aleksandra Majecka   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Early Upper Palaeolithic open‐air site of Friedrichsdorf‐Seulberg, Germany, in the context of the northern central European Aurignacian

open access: yesBoreas, EarlyView.
Our knowledge of the Early Upper Palaeolithic occupation in northern central Europe is very limited, and recent research at the open‐air site of Friedrichsdorf‐Seulberg in Hesse, Germany, provides important new information on the Aurignacian. The site is rather small (26.5 m2) and spatial analysis identified a central hearth with two associated ...
Tilman Böckenförde   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Food security in the Baltic Republics. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
OBJECTIVES: Food insecurity has become an important issue in many countries of the former Soviet Union following the transition to a market economy. This study examined three aspects of food security in the Baltic Republics: reasons for choosing foods ...
Vaask, Sirje   +7 more
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Density-dependence in space and time: opposite synchronous variations in population distribution and body condition in the Baltic Sea sprat (Sprattus sprattus) over three decades.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2014
Spatio-temporal density-dependent processes are crucial regulatory factors for natural populations. However, there is a lack of studies addressing spatial density-dependence in fish growth.
Michele Casini   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Identifying hotspots of faunal data deficiency to direct urgent research and monitoring

open access: yesConservation Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract Data deficiency is a substantial challenge for extinction risk assessments because incomplete data means we cannot accurately identify priority protected areas for conservation. Here, we use the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) distributions of amphibians, sharks and rays, fish, mammals, birds, and reptiles to identify ...
Matt W. Hayward   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Mapping of sensitivity to oil spills in the Lithuanian Baltic Sea coast.

open access: yes, 2010
This research develops an integrated environmental assessment tool for Lithuanian coastal area that takes due account of the major oil spill risks posed by the D-6 oil drilling platform, vessel traffic in the south-eastern Baltic Sea, and operation of ...
Groot, R.S., de   +3 more
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