Environment and Security
Priority areas in Eastern Europe // Belarus / Moldova / Ukraine Environment and security priority areas in Eastern Europe
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North-Western Belarus
Moscow
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Ignalina
LITHUANIA Kaliningrad RUSSIA
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a n vi Smolensk
Vitebsk
Vilnius
n a Nem
BELARUS
Warsaw
Smolenskaya
Minsk
Grodno
Bryansk Zhlobin
Soligorsk
Brest
Pripyat
Gomel
Dnieste
Chernivtsi
Pi
MOLDOVA z Tis
Balti ut Pr
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ROMANIA
Cherkasy Kremenchuk
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Kirovohrad
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Dn iep er
Lower Dniester and Pivdennoukrainska Transnistria Tiraspol
Chisinau
Cluj-Napoca
Kharkiv Poltava Donbas and adjacent areas
Vinnitsya
r
Sumy
Kyiv
UKRAINE Khmelnitskyi
Novovoronezhskaya
n Do
Zhytomyr
Ternopil
IvanoFrankivsk Uzhhorod
HUNGARY Debrecen
Rivne
Voronezh
Kurskaya
a n s e D
Chernobyl
Khmelnitska
Lviv
Kursk
Chernihiv
Rivnenska
Lublin West-Ukrainian Lutsk industrial areas and Carpathian Mountains
RUSSIA
Mogilev
Polesie
POLAND
SLOVAK REP.
per
Klaipeda
Dnie
Baltic Sea
Dau ga
ga
Vo l
LATVIA
Mykolaiv
Odesa
S iv . Don
Dnipropetrovsk
ets
Luhansk
Donetsk Zaporizhzhia
Zaporizka
Rostovon-Don
Berdyansk
RUSSIA
Kherson
Sea of Azov
Gagauzia
Brasov
Sevastopol
Bucharest
Kozloduy
Constanta
Danub e
Black
BULGARIA
geopolitics
waste trafficking Areas under
Sea
border ecosystems industrial accidents
environmental stress public awareness frozen conflicts 1
shared waters
Areas contaminated by the Chernobyl nuclear radiation explosion monitoring
Simferopol
Zmiinyi Island
Lower Danube
national policies social vulnerability 2
Tuzla Island
Krasnodar
Crimea 0
100
200 km
regional cooperation Past / current (frozen) conflicts
Map by UNEP/GRID-Arendal, May 2007.
rocket fuel
obsolete pesticides
energy land disputes [in]dependence cross-border impacts Land and territorial disputes military legacy
Strongly polluted coastal areas
Inter-state disputes in the process of international or bilateral resolution
Important nature: near-border protected areas and transboundary regions of high
Inter-ethnic disputes
3