Black Sea countries with an invaluable natural heritage are fragile to be threatened by numerous environmental challenges. The divergent, yet developing, economies of the region, the fragmented sectoral policies that are not compatible to environmental sustainability and the hierarchical government systems that lack of transparency and participation have concluded to the environmental degradation of the area. The need for new cooperative initiatives towards “greening” the Black Sea, through environmental and sustainable development policies, is emergent. This strategic policy implies the incorporation of the horizontal environmental perspective into all sectoral policies, with a view to achieve legal compliance, efficiency, legitimacy and regional cooperation.
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