Here is a pair of chosen segments from the report that we wanted to illuminate on this website...

Gothenburg have a lot of problems of historical and modern pollutions. The system analysis and RRR for the study area within the city, shows that the present environmental conditions is primary influenced by sources such as the activities of industries, harbour and shipping, agriculture upstream and the probabilities of an oil spill event. All the different activities and factors influencing the system leads today in one way or another to pollution (Fig. 3). The main polluter are the industries along with the harbour/shipping activities. In Gothenburg, they are quite extensive and releases metals, such as Zinc, Copper and Chromium into the water that then ends up in the sediment (Johansson, K. & Skrapste, A., 2003).  

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According to the VISS homepage, the ecological status of the area is moderate, and the goal is to be of “good ecological status” by 2027. At their database, there is low influence of agriculture and forestry in the southern parts and in the archipelago within the study area, which at some parts coincides with the interpretation. In the sea around the southern archipelago island, industry and pesticides are stated to not in greater extent affect the area. Even if the metals that are released from the different sources are one of the biggest environmental problems.