DREPTUL UMANITAR AL MEDIULUI
INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN LAW

Summary/Abstract: From many points of view, the era we live in today is a historical transition one, strongly marked by the crisis of the human kind’s traditional values and the imperatives of a future we can still not figure out precisely. One of the most stringent issues which proves the aforementioned statement is the one of the defiance the man shows to himself through the risks he poses to the natural environment where he is free but also obliged to live. Closer or farther from us, there are phenomena occurring that are seriously harming the man-nature relationship. We have acknowledged some of them so far: desertification, air pollution, water or earth pollution, atmospheric pollution, the disappearance of forests and animal species; the destruction of the genetic patrimony; the disappearance of the ozone layer and the greenhouse effect. Some others we have not acknowledged yet, but they are creeping up. All these phenomena can only prove the necessity to urgently take measures to protect the environment both locally and regionally or globally.

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