Geography and natural determinants of the Baltic Sea Region

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Geography and natural determinants of the Baltic
Sea Region
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What constituates a region

• a region may be a part of a state a province
• a region is an area that consists of several
  states or parts of states the concept of inter-
  or multinational regions

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Studing the region in international relations

• The landscape and environment
• Its societies and history
• The people living there
• The economics
• Institutions formal structure
• Formal and informal tights
• Levels of cooperation
• Planes of cooperation

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The role of a sea in a region building

• an area of dominance and fights
• an area of a strict state control
  militarization
• a source of pollutions coming from the other
  countries and damaging our own land
• an area developing network of communication
• an area of sustainable use of natural resources
• stimulus of ecological initiatives among/between
  costal states
• as a source of common problems to be solved
  together

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the Baltic Sae as a body of waters

• the Bothnian Bay
• the Bothnian Sea
• the Gulf of Finland
• the Gulf of Riga
• and the Belt Sea
• plus Kattegat north of the Öresund

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Etymology and the name in other languages

• based it on the mythical North European island
  Baltia
• connected to the Germanic word belt, a name used
  for some of the Danish straits
• from the Indo-European root bhel meaning white,
  shining
• "East Sea" (in Germany, Sweden, Denmark, Norway)
  ,"West Sea" in Estonia, or "Baltic Sea" in
  Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, Russia and in
  different languages of states not belonging to
  the region

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the natural features of Baltic

• Shallow (an average of 55 m deep)
• Brakish (the largest sea of brackish water in the
  planet)
• creatures living in the sea are small and
  colorless
• Baltic basin likely to achieve 3ºC to 5ºC warming
  this century

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the living conditions in the region

• it belongs to the worlds northern temperature
  zone
• differences in local climate on the north-south
  line
• differences in east-west dimension (between land
  and sea)
• Tree climatic zones subarctic zone(north)
  continental type (east) and maritimeclimate (west)

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the major islands of the Baltic Sea

• Gotland, Öland (Swedish)
• Bornholm (Danish)
• Åland Islands (Finland, autonomous)
• Hiiumaa, Saaremaa (Estonia)
• - Rügen (Germany

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mapping up borders of the region using the sea

• It encloses the coasts of the sea and inland of
  costal states
• It might be wider when the drainage basin of the
  sea is included (waterways and rivers going to
  the sea)

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Main features of the Baltic Sea Region

• DIVERSITY
• Levels of diversity