Abstract
Intensive economic development of the vast watershed basin of the Black Sea by the former Soviet Union and also Rumania and Bulgaria and inadequate nature conservation efforts led to a situation where considerable progress in industry, power engineering, agriculture, transport, residential utilities and recreational spheres created very unfavorable and in some regions even menacing environmental situations. The Black Sea is characterized by higher environmental vulnerability resultant from it being nearly a completely land-locked basin which is why the sea area is dependent, to a great extent, on the quality of water running into it from nearby land. Coastal regions are characterized by interaction and contradictions of production and social interests being responsible for environmental conflicts arising in sea nature management. Among the key environmental issues of the Black Sea we can name the following: presence of practically all forms and kinds of pollution of the sea and coastal environment, qualitative and quantitative depletion of bioresources, invasion of alien species.
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Zonn, I.S., Fashchuk, D.Y., Ryabinin, A.I. (2007). Environmental Issues of the Black Sea. In: Kostianoy, A.G., Kosarev, A.N. (eds) The Black Sea Environment. The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry, vol 5Q. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/698_5_076
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