CONSIDERATIONS REGARDING ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS OF DIFFERENT TECHNOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS
CONSIDERATIONS REGARDING ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS OF DIFFERENT TECHNOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Summary/Abstract: All economic activities, especially industrial activities have the direct goal to help increasing the quality of life of our society. Beside positive direct and desired effects of industrial activities these have also negative, undesired and sometimes unthinkable effects on the environment and society. After the Conference for Environment in Stockholm in 1972 it was understood that besides wanted effects of technological progress, undesired negative effects can appear. After this time the environmental awareness in the western world began changing. The discussions in 1992 during the Rio-Conference for Environment and Development, especially for establishing the Agenda 21 activities, succeeded in emphasizing the necessity of taking into account the environmental impacts of human activities. Nowadays we confront us with a series of global problems, not only environmental ones, which have been collected by the Club of Rome under the concept of the "World Problematique".

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