This urgent and essential text explores what could be classed as one of today's most pressing problems.It is the goal of environmental security to protect people from the short- and long-term ravages of nature, man-made threats and the deterioration of the natural environment.Environmental security includes activities related to pollution prevention, environmental conservation, compliance with regulations and environmental restoration.It is a challenge for transition countries to support all of these activities, due to limited resources, competing priorities and the fact that most environmental regulations, assessment methods and procedures, and restoration techniques were developed in countries where resources were not limited.

This urgent and essential text explores what could be classed as one of today's most pressing problems.It is the goal of environmental security to protect people from the short- and long-term ravages of nature, man-made threats and the deterioration of the natural environment.Environmental security includes activities related to pollution prevention, environmental conservation, compliance with regulations and environmental restoration.It is a challenge for transition countries to support all of these activities, due to limited resources, competing priorities and the fact that most environmental regulations, assessment methods and procedures, and restoration techniques were developed in countries where resources were not limited.