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Gas Production on the Northwestern Shelf of the Black Sea: Scales, Geographic and Ecological Conditions, Consequences and Their Forecast

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The northwestern shelf (NWSH) is not only the most productive region of the Black Sea. At the end of the XX century this aquatory became an arena of intensive economic activities. Among a variety of its forms the development of marine gas fields by Ukraine is ecologically the most actual.

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Fashchuk, D.Y. (2011). Gas Production on the Northwestern Shelf of the Black Sea: Scales, Geographic and Ecological Conditions, Consequences and Their Forecast. In: Marine Ecological Geography. Environmental Science and Engineering(). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-17444-5_5

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