Baltic Europe, Great Lakes America and ecosystem redevelopment

Efforts to redevelop large degraded ecosystems are often long-term undertakings. As a result, they are constrained as much by social and economic processes as by natural ones. Therefore, effective redevelopment strategies for Great Lakes and Baltic ecosystems are likely to be those that best contend with the long-term change of many important cultural processes. Great Lakes America and Baltic Europe are geographically defined economic regions closely tied to the large aquatic ecosystems that lie in their midst. They can be used as a framework for exploring opportunities and constraints of regional trends of societal development for ecosystem redevelopment.