Environment in Poland Issues and Solutions

than 6,000 hectares of arable land turn The second half of the twentieth century will pass into history as an epoch that saw great irreversibly into desert (Tolba, 1992). During the last 30 years, human activity acceleration in technological development, the birth of electronics, the first space fli...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Nowicki, Maciej
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 1993, 1993
Edition:1st ed. 1993
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • One The Legacy of the Past
  • Europe after World War II
  • Environmental pollution in Poland
  • Two sustainable development of the polish economy
  • At the crossroads
  • Sustainable development of the principal economic sectors
  • Three Conservation of nature in the strategy of sustainable development
  • Introductory remarks
  • Conservation of nature
  • Protection of mineral resources
  • Air quality protection
  • Water conservation
  • Waste management
  • Protection from radiation
  • Reform of environmental law
  • Law enforcement
  • Economic mechanisms
  • Co-operation with other nations
  • Environmental education
  • Poland at the Brink of the Twenty-First Century
  • Appendix: Poland — selected statistical data