Issue № 59. December 2016

Improving the Network of Protected Areas to Restore Degraded Marine Ecosystems: Management Aspects

Natalia N. Mitina — Ph.D., Professor, School of Public Administration, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russian Federation.
E-mail: natalia_mitina@mail.ru

Boris M. Malashenkov — Ph.D., Associate Professor, School of Public Administration, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russian Federation.
E-mail: malashenkow@mail.ru

Ekaterina V. Chuprina — Ph.D., researcher, Water Problems Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russian Federation.
E-mail: k_korda@mail.ru

The article presents an attempt at developing a methodology and rationale for the allocation of specially protected nature reserve areas on the example of the Black, Azov and Caspian seas. It is shown that a scientific approach for establishing such areas includes a complex of measures, including landscape zoning and mapping and statistical analysis of the parameters of the main components of the underwater natural complexes (underwater landscapes) in determining their variability, stability and hydro-ecological status, taking into account the detection of degradation of underwater landscapes in the past 100 years.

Keywords

Underwater landscape, bottom natural complex, natural-resource potential, control strategy management, natural protected aquatory, ecological framework of sustainability.