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This Chapter has the function of introducing the different starting positions of the authors and to provide a first list of viewpoints on social-ecological systems of the southern Baltic region. After a short general introduction, Chap. 2 describes the central role of human needs for the construction of a unified human-environmental model conception. It argues towards the approach of ecosystem services and gives a first impression on the demand for interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary integration. This strategy is generally deepened in Chap. 2, while in Chap. 2, the situation in different participating disciplines is described: It is shown from which state marine ecology, coastal ecology, ecosystem analysis, environmental economics, and environmental ethics have proceeded to cooperate on the attempt to better understand the coastal systems from a multidisciplinary point of view. Finally, the demand for interdisciplinary integration is illuminated in Chap. 2 with respect to the following contents and structures of this book.
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Notes
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In 1951, male inclusion was usual in grammar even for a female author. Today, of course, all sex and gender are referred to within inclusionary speech. This is the case in this article.
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The dilemma is here that removing the rusted ammunition from the seabed might result in a sudden release of highly toxic substances into the marine environment.
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Exhaustion can be avoided if the private cost of fishing increases drastically as the stock declines, such that the harvest goes to zero before the stock reaches its critical lower level. In Gordon (1954) this is modelled via the Sheaffer catch function, which has exactly this property.
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Benkenstein, M., Ott, K., Rauscher, M., Schubert, H., Müller, F. (2023). Coastal Ecosystems from a Social-Ecological Perspective. In: Schubert, H., Müller, F. (eds) Southern Baltic Coastal Systems Analysis. Ecological Studies, vol 246. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-13682-5_2
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