THE ETHICAL, EPISTEMOLOGICAL, ECONOMICAL, SOCIAL AND GEOPOLITICAL DIMENSIONS OF ENVIRONMENTAL POLICIES
Liviu Bogdan VLAD, Viorel MIONEL Academy of Economic Studies, Bucharest
The period after the Second World War was characterized at a global
level by the prevalence of debates regarding the „health” of the environment – under all its aspects: the protection of endangered flora and fauna species, climate changes, the destruction of the ozone layer, desertification, nuclear accidents, overpopulation, etc. – since the areas of influence of the new parties involved seem to expand with the economic development and environmental problems. The dispute over economic control or at least for economic supremacy was waged until recently among regional associations based on various ideologies (communism vs. capitalism). Thus, the environment was considered for a long time, at a political level, as an element without major importance. All these considerations
corroborated confer
various aspects to environmental problems, from the economic, social (ethical and moral), to the political and geopolitical. Subsequently, the gradual realization of global environmental changes
within national economies, and subsequently in the global economy, changed the vision of those involved leading to
the desire
notwithstanding contradictory statements, constituting a common purpose to be approached as a whole and not used as a pretext for economic disputes. Thus, visible concerns started appearing predominantly after the end
of the Second World War. At a global level, the first organization that aimed at the study and resolution of the ecological problems was the UNO (the United Nations Organization), and the main objectives were the resolution of major international economic, social, geopolitical, differences.
cultural and humanitarian The premises of the environmental policy were shaped at the end of
the ‚60’s, which is the reason they were included, from that period onwards, in the working agenda of the United Nations. At the beginning of the ‚70’s of the last century, the bases are laid for the first initiatives regarding the environmental policy.
uncontrollable decline” in
In 1972, the Rome club published a report forecasting „a sudden and society’s evolution from a demographic and
industrial point of view. The “energetic shocks” have had profound repercus- 152
for global unity,
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