Strategies to enhance environmental security in transition countries
It is the goal of environmental security to protect people from the short- and long-term ravages of nature, man-made threats and deterioration of the natural environment. Environmental security includes activities related to pollution prevention, environmental conservation, compliance with regulatio...
| Corporate Authors: | NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Strategies to Enhance Environmental Security in Transition Countries Sibiu, Romania) |
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| Other Authors: | NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Strategies to Enhance Environmental Security in Transition Countries, Hull, Ruth N., Barbu, Constantin-Horia., Goncharova, Nadezhda., North Atlantic Treaty Organization., North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Public Diplomacy Division. |
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht :
Springer,
[2007]
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| Physical Description: |
1 online resource (xv, 429 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
| Series: |
NATO security through science series. Environmental security.
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| Summary: |
It is the goal of environmental security to protect people from the short- and long-term ravages of nature, man-made threats and deterioration of the natural environment. Environmental security includes activities related to pollution prevention, environmental conservation, compliance with regulations and environmental restoration. It is a challenge for transition countries to support all of these activities, due to limited resources, competing priorities and the fact that most environmental regulations, assessment methods and procedures, and restoration techniques were developed in countries where resources were not limited. This volume presents the main environmental security challenges facing transition countries, as well as practical methods and approaches for addressing them. These approaches are equally applicable to all countries. The four basic topics this volume addresses are (I) Introduction to Environmental Security Challenges (II) Strategies, Methods and Approaches for Addressing these Challenges (III) Lessons Learned as Illustrated via Research and Case Studies (IV) Issues Related to Metals in the Environment. The final chapter of the book is a summary of the discussions and working group sessions, entitled "Environmental Security in Transition Countries: Knowledge Gaps, Hurdles and Effective Strategies to Address Them." |
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"Published in cooperation with NATO Public Diplomacy Division." Includes bibliographical references and index. Note continued: 14. Lessons learned from the north : balancing economic development, cultural preservation, and environmental protection / Susan Allen-Gil -- 15. process for focusing cleanup actions at contaminated sites : lessons learned from remote northern sites in Canada / Stella M. Swanson -- 16. Decoupling environmental problems from the overall aspects of political disputes : is it possible : the case of the PM2.5 project / Shmuel Brenner / Clive Lipchin / Allyson Amster -- 17. Watersheds management (Transylvania/Romania) : implications, risks, solutions / Angela Curtean-Banaduc / Doru Banaduc / Corneliu Bucsa -- 18. Water supply emergency for Lake Sevan / Gagik Torosyan -- 19. Sediment biobarriers for chlorinated aliphatic hydrocarbons in groundwater reaching surface water (SEDBARCAH project) / Kelly Hamonts / Annemie Ryngaert / Miranda Maesen / Johan Vos / Daniel Wilzcek / Jan Bronders / Ludo Diels / Winnie Dejonghe / John Dijk / Dirk Springael / Mark Sturme / Hauke Smidt / Jan Kuklik / Petr Kozubek / Thomas Kuhn / Rainer Meckenstock / Andre Rieger / Thomas Lange / Harald Kalka / Niels-Holger Peters / Jorg Perner / Lutz Eckardt -- 20. Bulgarian nuclear plants' strategy and environmental security on the Balkans / Plamen Gramatikov -- 21. Role of renewable energy sources in enhancement of environmental and energy security of Belarus / Semjon P. Kundas / Vladimir V. Tarasenko / Sergey S. Pazniak / Igor A. Gishkeluk -- 22. Evaluation of radiation risk : cytogenetic and molecular markers of low-dose radiation effects / Sergey Melnov / Pavel Marozik / Tatiana Drozd -- 23. Bioindication approach for an assessment of technogenic impact on the environment / Stanislav A. Geras'kin / Vladimir G. Dikarev / Alla A. Oudalova / Denis V. Vasiliev / Nina S. Dikareva / Tatiana I. Evseeva. Note continued: 24. Management of agricultural buildings to protect animal health and ensure building maintenance / Ioana Tanasescu -- 25. Which human and terrestrial ecological receptors are most at risk from smelter emissions? / Ruth N. Hull / Steven R. Hilts -- 26. Integration of metal bioavailability in risk assessment policy decision making / Eugen S. Gurzau / Anca Elena Gurzau / Iulia Neamtiu / Alexandru Coman -- 27. Atmospheric heavy metal deposition in Romania and neighboring countries : comparative evaluation on the basis of all European moss monitoring / Oleg Blum -- 28. Pollutant uptake on agricultural land : practical modeling / Nadezhda Goncharova / Darya Bairasheuskaya / Victoria Putyrskaya -- 29. Plant-microbe symbiosis for bioremediation of heavy metal contaminated soil : perspectives for Belarus / Alena Lopareva / Nadezhda Goncharova. It is the goal of environmental security to protect people from the short- and long-term ravages of nature, man-made threats and deterioration of the natural environment. Environmental security includes activities related to pollution prevention, environmental conservation, compliance with regulations and environmental restoration. It is a challenge for transition countries to support all of these activities, due to limited resources, competing priorities and the fact that most environmental regulations, assessment methods and procedures, and restoration techniques were developed in countries where resources were not limited. This volume presents the main environmental security challenges facing transition countries, as well as practical methods and approaches for addressing them. These approaches are equally applicable to all countries. The four basic topics this volume addresses are (I) Introduction to Environmental Security Challenges (II) Strategies, Methods and Approaches for Addressing these Challenges (III) Lessons Learned as Illustrated via Research and Case Studies (IV) Issues Related to Metals in the Environment. The final chapter of the book is a summary of the discussions and working group sessions, entitled "Environmental Security in Transition Countries: Knowledge Gaps, Hurdles and Effective Strategies to Address Them." English. |
| Physical Description: |
1 online resource (xv, 429 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
| Bibliography: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781402059964 1402059965 1402059949 9781402059940 1402059957 9781402059957 6610853568 9786610853564 |