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Author NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Managing Global Environmental Threats to Air, Water and Soil: Examples from South Eastern Europe (2010 : Ljubljana, Slovenia)

Title Understanding and managing threats to the environment in South Eastern Europe / edited by Gorazd Meško, Dejana Dimitrijević and Charles B. Fields
Published Dordrecht : Springer, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 393 pages)
Series NATO science for peace and security. Series C, Environmental security
NATO science for peace and security series. Series C, Environmental security.
Contents Foreword -- Introduction -- Slovenian Environmental Policy Analysis -- From Institutional Declarations to Instrumental Legal Regulation -- Situational Crime-Prevention Measures to Environmental Threats -- The Role of Economic Instruments in Eco-Crime Prevention -- International Waste Trafficking -- Preliminary Explorations -- Primary Categories and Symbiotic Green Crimes in Bosnia and Herzegovina -- Usage of Special Investigation Measures in Detecting Environmental Crime -- International and Macedonian Perspectives -- Solving Problems Related to Environmental Crime Investigations -- The Benefits from Using Professionally Developed Models of Possible Hazardous Materials Accident Scenarios in Crime Scene Investigation -- Environmental-Security Aspects of Explosion in the Ammunition Storage -- Opportunity for Policy Making -- Nanotechnology: The Implementation of Precautionary Principle beyond the European Union Bounded Space? -- Management of Spring Zones of Surface Water -- The Prevention of Ecological Risks on the Example of Serbia and South Eastern Europe -- Environmental Risks to Air, Water and Soil Due to the Coal Mining Process -- Solid Municipal Waste in Ukraine: A Case Study of Environmental Threats and Management Problems of the Chernivtsi Dump Area -- Environmental Risk Factors in Connection With Hospital Laundry Effluent -- Risk Assessment of Chemicals in Food for Public Health Protection -- Possibilities of Risk Quantification in the System of Save-for-Health Food Production -- Solutions to Threats and Risks for the National Security of Slovenia -- Uncertainty in Quantitative Analysis of Risks Impacting Human Security in Relation to Environmental Threats.-Environmental Conflict Analysis -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary This volume presents reflections on a variety of environmental issues in South-Eastern Europe from diverse contemporary scientific disciplines. The contributions address many crucial issues including national environmental policies, economic instruments for preventing crimes against the environment, international waste trafficking, threats to air, water and soil due to mining, management of dump areas, environment protection and food safety from a perspective of public health. The book will be a useful resource for researchers, developers and decision makers interested in the stability and sustainable development of the South-Eastern European countries
Notes "Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Managing Global Environmental Threats to Air, Water and Soil- Examples from South Eastern Europe, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 28-30 June 2010"--Title page verso
International conference proceedings
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Environmental management -- Balkan Peninsula -- Congresses
Offenses against the environment -- Balkan Peninsula -- Congresses
Environmental protection -- Congresses
Environmental law -- Balkan Peninsula -- Congresses
Environmental protection -- International cooperation -- Congresses
Environnement.
Climat.
Environmental law
Environmental management
Environmental protection
Environmental protection -- International cooperation
Offenses against the environment
Balkan Peninsula
Genre/Form proceedings (reports)
Conference papers and proceedings
Conference papers and proceedings.
Actes de congrès.
Form Electronic book
Author Meško, Gorazd, 1965-
Dimitrijević, Dejana.
Fields, Charles B.
ISBN 9789400706118
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