Central and Eastern Europe Environmental Issues

Despite growing awareness of the importance of a healthy environment and successes in pollution reduction, even a cursory summary shows that things have mostly gone from bad to worse worldwide. Let’s look at the problems by category.

In Canada, concerns involving environmental security are not the top priority. But due to recent research, Canada must be more strongly committed to environmental security due to increasing environmental problems internationally. There are many ways Canada can stay committed to environmental security, for example, increased funding to Canada’s Department of National Defence’s Environment Department. Also to stay committed to increased access and support to Voluntary Environmental Programs across Canada. Finally to completely stay up to world standards in environmental security, Canada must implement an effective environmental planning system. Throughout the essay, the topic at hand will be if Canada is able to implement these actions to

Teaching environmental responsibility is an important aspect of students’ education. The lesson will focus on studying the consequences of the Dust Bowl and the Chernobyl Disaster on the U.S. and the Eastern Europe. Discovering reasons and analyzing impacts of these catastrophic disasters will help raise students’ awareness and understanding of the importance of making responsible environmental decisions. By instilling in students environmental awareness, the lesson also contributes to building lifelong habits and developing necessary skills which will allow students to make informed decisions and consequently responsible choices. Such choices have a positive impact on a community, society, nation and potentially the world.

Environmental issues have been a part of living on earth since the beginning of time. The only issue with this however, is that resolutions have only just recently been put in place. Environmental concerns have only been discussed since the last half of the twentieth century. While some small steps were taken here and there, The European Union was the first to deliberate environmental policy in an attentive and compulsory nature. The European Union has some of the highest environmental standards to date. These standards have been evolving since the Paris Summit meeting of the European Community that took place in October 1972. The Paris Summit of 1972 was the first to introduce environmental policy on such a vast scale. One outcome of the summit was a declaration on environmental and consumer policy which gave the Environmental Commission the authority to establish the First Environmental Action Programme (EAP) to implement environmental policy. An EAP is essentially a strategic policy document which reflects the fundamental elements of contemporary environmental thinking and problem perceptions, as well as strategic policy orientation. (http://wwweeborg/publication/chapter-3pdf) It is based on a proposal from the Commission, but is now subject to a full legislative procedure leading to agreement between

Every region of the world faces some form of serious environmental issues. Whether it be pollution, overpopulation, wildlife extinction, or the many other issues we are faced with; it is time for us to make a plan towards a future for our planet. With living in the United States, we often do not have exposure to the issues affecting many parts of the world except through television. However, we need to personally expose ourselves to other regions as their problems can lead to everyone’s problem.

In the late 19th and beginning 20th centuries, Germany had to deal with various environmental issues. Germany had a high human population density, which was essential in promoting development during the industrial revolution. High human population density in the country resulted in increased dependence on fossil fuels for the energy supply. It also promotes a massive increase in environmental issues in during the 19th and 20th centuries. Some of the environmental issues during this period include increased pollution from lack of proper waste disposal, agriculture and transport processes that are harmful to the environment. In response, Germany had to deal with these environmental issues to creating a safe environment for the collective benefits of the entire population.

I agree with Moncrief that there are many different factors that a play part in the environmental crisis. Due to the revolutions,

The countries in Europe understand clearly about what is their geological strength, and will try to develop and protect it as their property. In this point, we have learned that we have to treasure our nature property. There are many countries that are only thinking about how to get more money from their nature resources, but less thinking about how to protect it in order to keep the resources last longer. Think about that, if a country only focus on getting benefits from the resources now, then there is no any left in the future years or even next generation because of the over gaining and using. Therefore, whenever a government wants to develop something from their nature resources, they should also think about some ways to keep it long lasting, and try not to destroy the environment.

Finland is known about their improvement of their environment. Their in almost 50% of the nation’s

In the past decades Turkey, like many neighboring countries, has faced a growth in population and an expediential rise in migration from rural areas to urban cities. This rapid rise of population in urban areas has brought with it a fear of environmental degradation and rise in risk exposure. The government of Turkey has taken steps in order to lessen impacts on the environment by placing the “environmental law” and the creation of National Ministry of Environment created in 1991(EIA, 2010). However land degradation in Turkey is not solely due to population growth or human behavior in that matter. Due to its geographic positioning the country has an extreme climate that can change in the same area from extreme cold and snow to drought and

Environmental issues have been a cause of a lot of debate in the recent past. Governments and nongovernmental organizations have been in constant consultations on how to help protect the environment. Apparently, as a result of man’s many actions, the natural environment is getting torn apart so quickly that the coming generations will not enjoy this kind of environment, unless a

In Poland, many species and habitats in the woodland ecosystem are being destroyed because air pollution is increasing throughout the years. Poland has helped humanity by improving the environment and substances in resources by signing in with many different programs that can help improve different types of land like forests and other regions. Since these are dying in numbers, Poland preserved their national parks and other places where species flourished to put a stop to those dying numbers. Poland does participate in the Natura 2000 Environmental Program that helped Poland establish a system of natural places for species to live in about 20% of the country's land. High numbers of tourists are also affecting the lives of many plants and animals and are causing problems in the area for pressure. Poland’s water has pollution damaging its condition.

Environmental can includes the natural resources, concern in this area is shortage of raw material and increased pollution.

The concept of environmental security although introduced in 1960’s (in the framework of International Relations), became mainstream in 1990’s after the end of cold war which ushered in an era of intellectual instability in the field of security studies introducing a variety of new agendas within the security discourse, including the environment, economy, and, more recently, terrorism (Michel and Pandya 2009).. Alexander Bell in his book Peak waters describes three broad types of environmental concerns which are; global warming, environmental degradation, and resource scarcity. For the purpose of this review, the focus will be on resource scarcity. There are two types of resource scarcity one that is Malthusian in nature and the second is

It is increasingly possible to protect the environment because of the use of alternative energy resources, the increased pressure from governments to work together to seek solutions, the more ingenuous ways of protecting the environment and the economically viable pursuits.