Europe: A Continental Overview of Environmental Issues (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781576076866)

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.

Author: Kevin Hillstrom,Laurie Hillstrom
ISBN-10: 1576076865
ISBN-13: 9781576076866
Publisher: ABC-CLIO
Language: English
Published: 08/13/2003
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.11lbs
Size: 9.44h x 5.90w x 0.80d

Review Citation(s):
American Reference Bks Annual 01/01/2004 pg. 725
School Library Journal 04/01/2004 pg. 94