Hanedar, AsudeGunes, YalcinAvsar, EdipTanik, AysegulMusaoglu, NebiyePasaoglu, Mehmet EminGorgun, Erdem2024-10-292024-10-2920231582-95961843-3707https://doi.org/10.30638/eemj.2023.038https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11776/14633Facing and experiencing the recent mucilage event in the Sea of Marmara-Turkiye in 2021 urged the local and state officers together with the related authorities to strengthen and improve the existing environmental auditing system. It is well-known that high pollution loads discharged to the receiving sea environment through land-based sources of point and diffuse loads accelerated the formation of mucilage in line with the warming of the sea surface as a consequence of climate change. In this regard changes, revisions, and particularly sector-specific activities were funded through a project established by the Ministry of Environment, Urbanization, and Climate Change (MoEU) and carried out by a group of academics and MoEU technical specialists. As such, the auding system has been thoroughly improved to prevent further deterioration of the Sea of Marmara surrounded by 7 metropolitan provinces of the country. This study is on the lessons-learnt during the renewal attempts of the auditing system with the aim of benefiting from the recent applications of the other developing and/or regional countries suffering from coastal pollution.en10.30638/eemj.2023.038info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccessenvironmental auditmucilage eventrisk assessmentSea of MarmaraTurkiyeArticle223485495Q4WOS:0010254263000082-s2.0-85191369583Q3