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Coasts and seas introduction

Europe is surrounded by nine sea basins: the Mediterranean Sea, Black Sea, and Sea of Azov, the Caspian Sea, White Sea, Barents Sea, Norwegian Sea, Baltic Sea, North Sea, and the North Atlantic Ocean.

Human activities are often concentrated in coastal regions which are least able to assimilate those activities and where adverse effects are most apparent.

The main threats to European coastal areas are: water pollution and eutrophication, loss of biological diversity, land use and landscape deterioration, and coastal erosion.


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