Ecological Conflict Areas in the Danube Basin Affected by Waterway Transport Development
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NAVIGABLE RIVER STRETCHES: r Lom a B $ va Bulgaria and Romania Dams with Locks S# A 500 km near-natural section with BIH kar over 60 islands, remnants of the Reservoirs S# Is BG former extended riverine landscape, is threatened by new river bed Waterway ECE IV, V, VI, VII regulation plans. Waterway ECE II, III Floodplains with high Ecological Quality Sofija S# Impounded Stretches Strongly Regulated Stretches Impounding dams along the navigable Danube Free-flowing Stretches 1. Bachhausen (D) 13. Ottensheim-Wilhering (A) 2. Berching (D) 14. Mauthausen (A) Canals Waterway Transport 3. Dietfurth (D) 15. Wallsee-Mitterkirchen (A) Projected Canals 4. Riedenburg (D) 16. Ybbs-Persenbeug (A) on Europe's Lifeline, Other Rivers 5. Kehlheim (D) 17. Melk (A) the Danube Î Important River Port 6. Bad Abbach (D) 18. Rossatz (A) 7. Regensburg (D) 19. Altenwörth (A) Î Sea and River Port 8. Geisling (D) 20. Greifenstein (A) Vienna, January 2002 N 9. Straubing (D) 21. Vienna-Freudenau (A) Produced by 50 0 50 100 Kilometers 10. Kachlet (D) 22. Gabcikovo (SK) ZINKE ENVIRONMENT CONSULTING 11. Jochenstein (D/A) 23. Iron Gate I (FRY/RO) for Central and Eastern Europe, Vienna Scale: 1: 4 500 000 12. Aschach (A) 24. Iron Gate II (FRY/RO) Cartography by U.SCHWARZ, FLUVIUS