EPIRB, 2013. — 103 p.
Dnieper River is the third largest river in Europe after the Volga and the Danube and the second largest river to feed into the Black Sea. The Dnieper River basin has total area of 511 000 km
2 and length of 2200 km. The river basin of the Dnieper is a trans-boundary system: 20% of its area is situated within the Russian Federation, 23% within the Republic of Belarus, and 57% within Ukraine. The Dnieper River basin is a multisectoral complex of high natural and socio-economic value. Besides socially important natural resources (e.g. water, land, forests), the basin provides valuable resource base to socioeconomic stakeholders – commercial, industrial and government organizations, manufacturers, land and water users, agencies for control and regulation, etc. In the Dnieper basin are concentrated large conurbations and a range of smaller towns and townships. The Dnieper basin is a classic example of unsustainable regional development as a result from an attempt to transform the region’s traditional agrarian structure into industrial in just a few decades. The situation is further complicated by economic difficulties, which press on countries in the basin.
