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By Massimiliano Montini, Slavko Bogdanovic

Authored via overseas specialists from academia, foreign enterprises, governments and NGOs, this ebook highlights the most environmental protection concerns within the South-East ecu (SEE) international locations, with a selected concentrate on weather swap and water administration. the typical aim of the authors used to be to supply a competent review of no matter if latest felony regimes and proper implementation of appropriate overseas treaties may perhaps give a contribution to decreasing environmental safeguard hazards within the sector. In-depth analyses and evaluate of significant demanding situations in compliance, function an organization floor which such evaluate is predicated on. This quantity is usually recommended for public officers, criminal practitioners and specialists. Its curiosity can also expand past the SEE nations, serving as a case-study of a broader and paradigmatic relevance of the research and administration of environmental and defense matters in a trans-boundary context.

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Analysis of risks and challenges. A Conference on the occasion of the World Day to Combat Desertification. Berlin, June 26 (2007). Available at http://www. de/ European Commission Report on activities undertaken and support provided by the European Community to combat Desertification in countries in Asia, Latin America and Caribbean, Central and Eastern Europe in the period January 2001, December 2005, March 2007 European Commission. Kopernikus: observing our planet for a safer world. item_id = 1761&lang = it OSCE the Environment for Europe process.

Therefore, it is presented below a brief overview only about the organisations explicitly mentioned in this paper. 1 Institute for Environmental Security (IES) IES is an international non-profit non-governmental organisation established in 2002 in The Hague, in order to increase political attention to environmental security as a means to help safeguard essential conditions for peace and sustainable development. IES has published very interesting reports, like the Introduction to the Concepts of Environmental Security and Environment Conflict, and is involved in several projects like the Climate Change & the Military Project, which is based on the cooperation of a group of leading think tanks to elaborate a message from the security sector to the December 2009 climate change negotiations taking place at the UN Conference on Climate Change in Copenhagen.

The chronic ­pollution does not only affect plant and animal life, but also human health and the economic development of the region, as the strong negative media presence linked to such spill accidents regularly repels tourists and potential purchasers of local products. Trans-boundary effects of such pollution can trigger substantial tensions of the still feeble political cooperation in the region and might affect the security of the Balkan states. Watercourses are the main vector for trans-boundary pollution, whether it is ongoing and chronic, or infrequent and accidental.

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