Oden, Svante

Oden, Svante. (1968). Acidification of Air Precipitation and its Consequences on the Natural Environment (title translated from the Swedish). Bulletin No. 1, Ekologikommitten Statens Naturvetenskapliga Forskeningsrad Stockholm. 

Svante Oden, a Swedish scientist, was to help bring international attention to the phenomenon of transboundary acid deposition in the late 1960s with his research that linked the acidification of Swedish lakes to pollution emitted abroad. As a relatively sparsely populated region with low levels of industrialization, domestic emissions could not explain the damage that Oden found occurring in southern Sweden s water bodies. Thus, he hypothesized that the source of the pollution was upwind - that is from Great Britain and the European continent.His theory gave birth to the modem acid rain movement. 

Svante Oden, The Acidification of Air and Precipitation and its Consequences in the Natural Environment, Ecology Committee Bulletin, No. 1 (Sweden, 1968). 

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