September 2012

The Bay of Sevastopol in Ukraine

The Bay of Sevastopol is one of the rare natural inland harbours on the coast of Crimea by the Black Sea. It has served as marine shelter and residence for human civilizations over 25 centuries. The bay was initially a biologically productive marine site, but it has been gradually developed into a large municipal and maritime infrastructure, marine port, navy base and shipyard. This had almost completely exhausted natural resources of the bay and it has become a site of multiple conflicts among stakeholders including the navy, maritime industry, tourism, and local citizens.


Nowadays, the major environmental problems in this area are due to the absence of a regional ICZM Protocol for the Black Sea. As the result, there is no institutional motivation for stakeholders to follow the ICZM principles and address potential transboundary or other regional issues.


It is recognized that there is a need to consider issues related to coastal development, eutrophication and other water pollution, biodiversity loss and impacts and risks exacerbated by climate change. To this end, the Pegaso team will work to foster greater collaboration between the involved stakeholders and improve their understanding for the management of this area. Further information through a web portal, GIS mapping datasets, existing legal and regulatory frameworks as well as other interacting tools to build scenarios are under preparation.


A new Atlas of the oceanographic characteristics of the Sevastopol Bay recently prepared, contains the first results of hydrological and hydrochemical studies of this bay and its adjacent areas.


The case supervisor is Sergey Konovalov, Marine Hydrophysical Institute, Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences.



More info: sergey@alpha.mhi.iuf.net

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