Dr. Margarita Stancheva and Dr. Hristo Stanchev are the primary authors of the Case Study Burgas: Land-Sea Interactions (published as a book), specifically focused to follow the land-sea interactions and to identify the interactions, conflicts and impacts between uses, sectors and environment both terrestrial and marine using the synergy/conflict land-sea interaction matrix approach.

This report presents the results under the project “Cross border maritime spatial planning in the Black Sea – Romania and Bulgaria (MARSPLAN – BS)”, Grant Agreement: EASME/EMFF/2014/1.2.1.5/2/SI2.707672 MSP LOT 1 /BLACK SEA/MARSPLAN-BS.

The MARSPLAN-BS project is co-funded by the European Commission through the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund (EMFF), Directorate General for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries or DG MARE: https://ec.europa.eu/maritimeaffairs/index_en. The case study is one of the five case studies with major challenges carried out within the MARSPLAN-BS Project.