A concise yet thorough overview of the environmental issues, problems, and controversies facing the world's most densely populated continent-Europe.
Europe, one of six titles in The World's Environments series, tackles the tough issues, the complex problems, and the political controversies surrounding the continent's environmental past, its complicated present, and its uncertain future.
Europe looks at the catastrophes-in January 2000, a massive spill of cyanide and heavy metals from a gold mining operation in Romania destroyed all biological life in the Tisza, Hungary's second biggest river. The poisons traveled 1,000 kilometers through Hungary and Yugoslavia, where they wreaked havoc on the Danube. It also examines the progress-European society has shown a greater interest in renewable energy technologies than most other industrialized regions in the last 30 years. Serving as both a blueprint for the future, as well as a roadmap of the past, this book offers a gripping look at Europe's ecological history.
Interesting sidebar articles, tables and figures, and photographsOverview maps of the continent and a listing of environment-related organizations on the Internet
- ISBN10 6610711682
- ISBN13 9786610711680
- Publish Date 13 August 2003
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 11 May 2011
- Publish Country US
- Imprint ABC-CLIO
- Format eBook
- Pages 261
- Language English