Table of Contents

Matti Seppälä: Preface
I Physical Environment
1: Karna Lidmar-Bergström and Jens-Ove Näslund: Major Landforms and Bedrock
2: Matti Eronen: Land Uplift: Virgin Land from the Sea
3: Matti Seppälä: Glacially Sculptured Landforms
4: Matti Seppälä: Present-Day Geomorphic Processes
5: Hannu Pajunen: Mires
6: Matti Tikkanen: Climate
7: Anders Moberg, Heikki Tuomenvirta, and Per-Øyvind Nordli: Recent Climatic Trends
8: Veli Hyvärinen and Juha Kajander: Rivers and Lakes
9: Esko Kuusisto: Snow as a Geographic Element
10: Per Holmlund: Glaciers
11: Olavi Heikkinen: Boreal Forest and Northern and Upper Timberlines
II Physiographic Regions
12: Geoffrey D. Corner: Atlantic Coast and Fjords
13: Geoffrey D. Corner: Scandes Mountains
14: Karna Lidmar-Bergström and Jens-Ove Näslund: Uplands and Lowlands in Southern Sweden
15: Rune Frisén, Carl Erik Johansson, and Veli Suominen: Archipelagos in the Baltic Sea
16: Esko Kuusisto: Lake District of Finland
17: Leif Kullman: Mountain Taiga of Sweden
18: Carl Erik Johansson: The District of Great Rivers around the Gulf of Bothnia
19: Matti Seppälä: Periglacial Environment
III Humans in the Environment
20: John Westerholm: Major Human Impact
21: Ingemar Renberg, Richard Bindler, and Tom Korsman: Acid Rain and Acidification of Lakes
22: Jaakko Mannio, Birt-Lisa Skjelkväle, Anders Wilander, Erik Fjeld, and Seppo Rekolainen: Lake Water Pollution
23: Antti Haapanen: Biodiversity Conservation
Index

Reviews

'This book is highly recommended.'
*Progress in Physical Geography 30 (2), 2006*