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The burden of the coastal area with the solid waste in the Kornati National Park

The paper content partially summarizes the intensive three-month cooperation survey of the Environmental Protection College Velenje and the Department of Geography of the University of Zadar in 2018. We have upgraded the joint preparation of the methodology for the inventory of solid waste in the coastal zone and verified the inventory list with the field work in the National Park Kornati. A large part of the archipelago, approximately 2/3 of the land and the waters of Kornati (217 km2) in Central Dalmatia (the Šibenik-Knin County), was proclaimed and protected in the 1980 as a national park. It is a place of exceptional natural values, cultural heritage and mostly occasional inhabitants, which is at the same time very attractive for visitors. With the Action Plan for the management of the area, they want to maintain high aesthetics of the landscape, geomorphologic and geological specificities, the image of a large fragmentation of the coast and the extremely rich biocenosis of the marine ecosystem in a sustainable way. The observed natural conditions (winds, currents) and socio-economic reasons (environmental pressures during the high tourist season) bring additional features to the area under consideration. In the typical image of the large rocky and unpopulated labyrinth of the islands, the anthropogenic landscape resources and their influences are concentrated in the coastal zone: a) areas with settlements and infrastructure for the predominant nautical tourism, and b) uninhabited areas, mostly with bays and coves accessible only from the sea. The data showed the different origin of the waste according to the country of origin or production: Croatia, Turkey, Albania, Poland, Italy, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Germany, France, Greece, Hungary, Macedonia. Most of the time, plastic household and solid wood waste were the predominant share. Due to the natural and anthropogenic activities the waste has not stopped to accumulate.

solid waste, inventory, coast area, NP Kornati, Croatia

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