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

Chapter 2
How the Environment Works

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Planet Earth

  • The long history of the human environment

  • Population increase, industrialization, and environmental decline

  • Discovering the environmental dilemma 

  • Case Box 1.1 The story of Easter Island

Environmental problems

  • Global impacts 

  • Review Box 1.2. The changing character of environmental problems 

  • Regional impacts 

  • Outlook Box 1.3. Global concerns 

  • Local impacts 

Facing environmental decline ­ the development of environmental policy

  • The growing environmental movement 

  • Environmental problems and economic activity 

  • Review Box 1.4. Economic activities cause environmental problems 

  • Environmental policy and its achievements. 

  • International cooperation. 

  • The role of external factors. 

Environmental policy in Central and Eastern Europe

  • The origin of environmental protection in the socialist world

  • Industrialization and use of natural resources 

  • Environment and political transformation 

A new strategy for man and the environment

  • The challenges

  • Ecostrategies

  • Limits of technical solutions

  • Sustainable development and human ecology 

  • Living on the surface of our Earth 

  • Using the sun