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Environmental Science for Environmental Management has quickly established itself as the leading introduction to environmental science, demonstrating how a more environmental science can create an effective approach to environmental management on different spatial scales. Since publication of the first edition, environmentalism has become an increasing concern on the global political agenda. Following the Rio Conference and meetings on population, social justice, women, urban settlement and oceans, civil society has increasingly promoted the cause of a more radical agenda, ranging from rights

This contribution focuses on the limits of European Union (EU) programs & accession practices on environmental policies & performance in Central & Eastern Europe (CEE). In particular, we document some of the ways in which state socialist & postsocialist environmental conditions, practices, & policies are shaping, & in turn being shaped by, the path of accession & integration. We focus on the diverse & changing patterns of air, water, & soil quality in CEE, the contested nature of new environmental policies, the environmental consequences of economic change, & the sustainability of emerging environmental regimes. The contribution concludes with several questions about the consequences of new state membership for future EU environmental policies. 3 Tables, 6 Figures, 72 References. Adapted from the source document.