Original scientific paper
Environmental Protection: Contemporary Concepts; Do We Need a Strategy for Environmental Protection?
Velimir Pravdić
; Institute »Ruđer Bošković«, Zagreb
Abstract
The state of the environment, its protection and improvement, or at least the prevention of further degradation, have been increasingly engaging the
attention of politics and political establishments in the West as well as in the East Summits of leading politicians from the industrial countries of the West
have had regularly on their agendas environmental protection issues. The leadership of the USSR has already marked the order of prioritiest two years ago
(1988): Perestryika, followed by environmental protection.
Successful opposition to negative trends is possible only through organized action of societies, of states united into regional, continental and global communities as well. Not underestimating the individual, subjective contribution within behaviour supporting environmental protection, the contemporary technological civilization demands an organized approach. An organized approach to managing the environment is called a strategy: today we are advocating the so-called third generation strategies which are based on integral planning of development and environmental protection, on a wholistic principle and on the principle of predicting possible consequences and directing development One of the attempts for creating a systematic approach to environmental protection and improvement in Yugoslavia is based on the elaboration of the integral ecological, technological, economical and sociological framework, that is, on working out an approach which will be compatible to the anticipated concepts of development of the European Community in the next decade.
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Hrčak ID:
155075
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Publication date:
30.6.1991.
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