The Baltic University Programme - A regional university network on sustainable development

Chapter 1
Discovering the Environmental Dilemma

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In this chapter you should learn that:

  • Environmental problems are as old as human civilization

  • With the industrial revolution clusters of people became large enough to have a considerable effect on the environment

  • The increase in the global population has been dramatic

  • Environmental problems are either global, regional or local.

  • The increased and diversified industrial activity causes increasingly more complex environmental problems