Europe's environment beyond the EU enlargement - Latest uploadsLatest uploads2007-09-10T21:12:35Ztag:eu25plus.ew.eea.europa.eu,2007-09-10:/portal_syndication/latestuploads_rdfhttp://eu25plus.ew.eea.europa.eu/misc_/EnviroWindows/Site.gifEEAEurope's environment beyond the EU enlargementLithuania - adoption of the community acquistag:eu25plus.ew.eea.europa.eu,2008-06-26:/enviro_acquis/links/fol349351/url9779882008-06-26T18:39:43ZcupceantEnviroWindows teamAquies implementationtag:eu25plus.ew.eea.europa.eu,2008-10-28:/enviro_acquis/fol341347/bp3-ACQIS-finaldraft05may04.zip2008-10-28T11:43:42ZcupceantEnviroWindows teamQuality of life in EU candidate countries and differences with Member Statestag:eu25plus.ew.eea.europa.eu,2008-10-28:/enviro_quality/background/BP5_Quality_of_life_in_EU_candidate_countries_and_differences_with_Member_States.doc2008-10-28T11:43:42ZcupceantEnviroWindows teamThere are indications that accession countries enjoy lower subjective well-being than it is predicted by objective indicators in comparison to EU member states - this observation is conventionally refused with an argument of too high pre-transition popular expectations (Cook: 8). To test this observation non-conventional approach is called for and it is concluded from it that accession countries might enjoy distinctively different economic patterns of development from EU member states, which relatively more favour non-commercial and non-material aspects of economic progress. This in turn makes problematic present neo-liberal stance of EU economic strategy of development as adopted by Lisbon documents and stability pact. The most unsustainable is not profit-motivated degradation of economic resources itself, but degradation of multiple functions of economic, social and environmental resources.
The main purpose of the paper is to review different approaches to defining and measuring quality of life (QL), focusing on social and environmental and in particular on biodiversity aspects of this link in relation to conventional commercial and value added maximisation approaches ...Main aspects of economic restructuringtag:eu25plus.ew.eea.europa.eu,2008-10-28:/enviro_economic/background/BP1_Main_aspects_of_economic_restructuring.doc2008-10-28T11:43:42ZcupceantEnviroWindows teamThe state of environment in Central and Eastern European Countries (CEEC) varies depending on economic and financial capacities to invest into environmental infrastructure by enterprises, self-governments and households. There are two kinds of environmental issues to be solved:
· Traditional sources and reasons of environmental contamination (commercial activities particularly those of state-owned large industrial and agricultural enterprises, consumption and other activities in private households);
· New sources of environmental contamination resulting from increased consumption and mobility of the society that have become more open to international markets (e.g. environmental aspects of increased amounts of package waste, old and new cars imported from abroad, taking over the so-called Western style of life, but lacking appropriate environmental infrastructure)...
Use of instruments and policy options to achieve the biodiversity preservation goalstag:eu25plus.ew.eea.europa.eu,2008-10-28:/enviro_biodiv/background/BP4_Use_of_instruments_and_policy_options_to_achieve_the_biodiversity_preservation_goals.doc2008-10-28T11:43:42ZcupceantEnviroWindows team