A large number of people have participated in the production of this Study Pack. The foremost gratitude goes to a small group of teachers drawn from every Black Sea country who freely gave their time and effort to help develop the concept of the Study Pack and to test the materials in their own schools. These are:

•  Stella Petrova and Natalia Toneva, Bulgaria

•  Adriana Popescu and Carmen Bucovala, Romania

•  Inna Naideonycheva, Nadezhda Maiboroda and Tatiana Belenko, Russian Federation

•  Sonmez Yanardag, Demet Ipek Balli and Cuneyt Dokmen , Turkey

•  Svetlana Chernikova and Oleh Derkach , Ukraine

•  Tamara Glonti and Anna Loria, Georgia

Central to the development of the Study Pack was the support of scientists and specialists on diverse aspects of the Black Sea who have contributed valuable material. These include Acad. Yuvenaly Zaitsev ( Ukraine ), Prof. Nicolae Panin ( Romania ), Dr Gennady Korotaev ( Ukraine ), Dr. Alexander Vershinin ( Russia ), Dr. Stale Knudsen ( Norway and Turkey ), Neal Ascherson (UK) and Natasha Barker (UK). We appreciate the help of Belin Maginn and Alan Dyer from the University of Plymouth (UK) with production and pedagogical review of part of the material. Additionally, we would like to thank a group of Black Sea educationalists who reviewed the Study Pack, translated much of it into national languages and liaised with their education authorities to recommend its use in schools.

This publication would not have been possible without the support of the Pew Charitable Foundation who awarded Prof. Laurence Mee a Pew Fellowship in Marine Conservation to continue his work in environmental education in the Black Sea region. This support funded the teachers' workshops in Bulgaria and Ukraine . The GEF Black Sea Environmental Recovery Project provided additional support for the production of this Study Pack. We have also been encouraged to complete this work by colleagues from the Black Sea Commission and we hope to count on their continued support for its promotion and distribution in national languages.

Teachers cleaning the beach as part of their workshop, Bulgaria , 2000