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Protecting the environment in transitional situations.
1998Discusses the possible relevance of the Kuznets environmental curve to centrally planned economies and compares their situation with that for market economies. Claims that Kuznets environmental curves apply to ‘normal’ situations and so give little guide to environmental impacts of economies in transition.
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2017
Abstract The United Nations (UN) has taken action to protect the environment despite the absence of any explicit mention of the environment or its protection in the UN Charter. The UN has ‘played a pivotal role as a framework for developing environmental decision-making’.
Rosalyn Higgins +4 more
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Abstract The United Nations (UN) has taken action to protect the environment despite the absence of any explicit mention of the environment or its protection in the UN Charter. The UN has ‘played a pivotal role as a framework for developing environmental decision-making’.
Rosalyn Higgins +4 more
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1998
Abstract Public concern over environmental protection, and the opinion regarding the proper scope of governmental control in support of it are bedevilled by variations is public understanding of highly complex issues, and in levels of public trust.
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Abstract Public concern over environmental protection, and the opinion regarding the proper scope of governmental control in support of it are bedevilled by variations is public understanding of highly complex issues, and in levels of public trust.
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1994
The term ‘environment’ extends our earlier concept of land (p. 84) to include the sea and the atmosphere. As such it provides a flow of goods and services: (a) materials (such as soil, minerals and timber) and energy (from fossil fuels, tides and wind); (b) space, to produce food, erect buildings, develop communications and provide ...
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The term ‘environment’ extends our earlier concept of land (p. 84) to include the sea and the atmosphere. As such it provides a flow of goods and services: (a) materials (such as soil, minerals and timber) and energy (from fossil fuels, tides and wind); (b) space, to produce food, erect buildings, develop communications and provide ...
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The Protection of the Environment
1990But citizens have found that there are other tasks, of increasing concern to them, which national governments are no longer capable of performing. They are conscious of the threat which industrialization within their own states poses to the national environment. They are concerned about the increasingly serious pollution of air and water resulting from
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Protecting humans and the environment
Journal of Radiological Protection, 2007openaire +2 more sources