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Abstract

This paper is the first attempt to combine interdisciplinary studies of Boka Kotorska Bay of the Adriatic Sea with the aim of improving its presentation in terms of functioning and limits of the use of its natural potential. It collects and highlights the geographical and oceanographic characteristics, climate, history and development, biology, fisheries, agriculture, coastal zones, shipping, marine tourism and pollution. In the recent decades, there has been an increased awareness worldwide of the very important role of the coastal regions along with their assessment of them as sites with unique properties, priceless and non-renewable natural resources. The distinctive characteristic of the Boka Kotorska Bay is that its whole “life” has been connected with the seasonal tourism; although seasonal in character and uneven, it largely provides economic development of its coastal zone.

In the process of development of the coastal zone of the Bay, there is an inevitable conflict between the types of business activities, fishing and tourism, the growth in housing and infrastructure (port complex), and we are taking account of the interaction and collision of industrial, social and natural processes that lead to the emergence of environmental conflicts.