BACKGROUND
The Conference initiates a concerted effort to use science, information
technology and policy measures to understand and deal with the consequences of
global warming in the Black Sea region towards better governance, sustainable
exploitation of resources and conservation of the marine environment.
The main objectives are to:
- synthesize regional and basin-wide studies and provide a forum for
the integration of climate change -related results, data and hypotheses;
- discuss and evaluate climate forcing mechanisms of physical,
biological and biogeochemical processes at various time-spatial scales
- formulate projections and future scenarios of economic and
sociological impacts of a changing ecosystem on the coastal communities and
resource users
- frame scientific, technological and policy measures against global
warming towards sustainable ecosystem management
The main topics identified are:
- Hydrometeorological and physical changes in the Black Sea,
- Atmospheric pollution and biogeochemical cycles alterations
- Coastal environment vulnerability to climate change ( natural
hazards (flooding), sea level rise and coastal erosion)
- Climate change and cumulative impacts of multiple drivers on
biological diversity
- Indicators of ecosystem changes (ecosystem biodiversity,
productivity, structure, function, including measurable variables)
- Trophodynamic and spatial transitions in size-spectra and food web
structure – matches and mismatches
- Processes controlling energy pathways changes: life-history
strategies, turnover rates and physical habitat interactions
- Black Sea Environmental Data Bases – projects output, (data bases,
services , results implementation)
- Data Quality Control and Data Quality Assessment
- Black Sea virtual data & information infrastructure (DQC Content
Mananagement System)
- Climate change and Black Sea living resources – challenges for
sustainable exploitation
- Socio-economic impacts and policy scenarios
- Our responsibility under Global Warming
- Information gaps – gaps in knowledge, data, policy and legislation
