In order to identify the most prominent European environmental problems, a meeting of European environment ministers was held at Dobris Castle near Prague in 1991. As a result of this meeting, work began by making a survey of the literature and analyzing international initiatives by, among others, the EU, UNECE, UNEP, OECD and the US Environment Protection Agency. This resulted in a list of 56 environmental problems in Europe of which the following 12 problems were considered the most significant.
the management of water;
waste management;
climate change;
stratospheric ozone depletion;
urban stress;
forest degradation;
chemical risks;
acidification;
major accidents;
the loss of biodiversity;
tropospheric ozone and other photochemical oxidants;
coastal zone threats and management; Only the first of these problems, management of water, is briefly discussed here from information presented in the report of the study by the European Environment Agency.
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Herschy, R.W. (1998). Water resources: Europe. In: Encyclopedia of Hydrology and Lakes. Encyclopedia of Earth Science. Springer, Dordrecht . https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-4497-6_247
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