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Environmental Security in Watersheds: The Sea of Azov

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 2012

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Editors:
  1. Viktor Lagutov

    1. , Modelling Laboratory, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary

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  • Azov is a unique ecosystem ( the smallest, one of the most historically productive seas of the world)
  • Interdisciplinary crosssectoral perspective of environmental security including specific regional pecularities such as Cossack Communities
  • Azov plays a rapidly growing strategic role as a communication corridor linkin Europe and Asia, landlocked Caspian countries in the world

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Table of contents (14 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. The Azov Basin: Services, Drawbacks and Challenges

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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  3. THE AZOV BASIN: SERVICES, DRAWBACKS AND CHALLENGES

    1. The Azov Ecosystem: Resources and Threats

      • Viktor Lagutov, Vladimir Lagutov
      Pages 3-62

    2. Ecosystem Services of Rivers: The Don River (Russian Federation) and the Roanoke River (USA)

      • Brenda Rashleigh, Viktor Lagutov, Tobias Salathe
      Pages 63-77

    3. Climate Change, Water and Agriculture in the Azov Sea Basin

      • Nikolay Dronin, Andrei Kirilenko
      Pages 79-93

    4. Ecological and Hydrogeological Assessment of Ukrainian Part of the Azov Sea Basin

      • Svitlana Sytnik, Mykola Kharytonov, Anna Vagner, Victoria Lovinskaya, Elena Rabich, Nataliya Ilyashenko
      Pages 95-105

    5. Multipurpose Water Scheme Assessment of the Tsimlyansk Reservoir

      • Elena Shavrak, Lev Fesenko, Irina Generalenko, Nataliya Ilyashenko
      Pages 107-114

  4. The Black Sea Experience

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 115-115
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  5. THE BLACK SEA EXPERIENCE

    1. Black Sea Environmental Status Improvement Through the Restoration of Wetlands Along the Danube River

      • Dan Cogălniceanu
      Pages 117-126

    2. Fish Stock Management Cooperation in the Lower Danube Region: A Case Study of Sturgeons and Pontic Shad

      • Mirjana Lenhardt, Željka Višnjić-Jeftić, Ion Navodaru, Ivan Jarić, Milen Vassilev, Zoran Gačić et al.
      Pages 127-140

    3. Distributed Geocomputation for Modeling the Hydrology of the Black Sea Watershed

      • Nicolas Ray, Gregory Giuliani, Dorian Gorgan, Anthony Lehmann
      Pages 141-157

    4. Governance of the Protection of the Black Sea: A Model for Regional Cooperation

      • Violeta Velikova, Nilufer Oral
      Pages 159-171

    5. Vulnerability of the Black Sea to the Impacts of Climate Change

      • Gamze Celikyilmaz-Aydemir
      Pages 173-180

  6. Transboundary Water Management

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 181-181
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  7. TRANSBOUNDARY WATER MANAGEMENT

    1. Spills of the Aral Sea: Formation, Functions and Future Development of the Aydar-Arnasay Lakes

      • Kristina Rodina, Ruben Mnatsakanian
      Pages 183-215

    2. Caspian Sea: Problems and Prospects

      • Anar Mansurov
      Pages 217-222

    3. Water Management and Use in the Amur-Heilong River Basin: Challenges and Prospects

      • Natalia Pervushina
      Pages 223-240

    4. Participatory Futures Research and Social Learning for Integrated Watershed Management

      • Andrew Segrave, Chris Büscher, Jos Frijns
      Pages 241-253
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Watersheds, supplying crucial ecosystem services to humans, seem to be a logical territorial unit to integrate societal benefits and environmental needs in order to evaluate the sustainability of natural resource use patterns. Based on this belief the book is an attempt to initiate a comprehensive environmental security assessment in the basin of the Azov Sea, shared by Russia and Ukraine. Though the region provides a variety of essential services and plays a strategic role in national and international development plans, it has been excluded from most regional environmental discussions. At the same time there is an alarming degradation rate of basin freshwater ecosystems that has occurred due to overutilization of certain prioritized services (e.g. transportation). The collapse of neglected services (e.g. fishery and freshwater supply) poses serious threats to the national economies as well as the local population, and to mitigate these threats priority in water management should be given to securing sustainability of the regional freshwater ecosystems.
In addition to the review of the current status of Azov ecosystem services, the authors analyze likely future availability and challenges. The relevant experience derived from basin management of the Black Sea and other similar basins is also discussed.

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  • , Modelling Laboratory, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary

    Viktor Lagutov

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