Environmental issues are enhanced by crowding together pollution sources as it is occuring in urban areas. Meanwhile urbanization is a continuous process that comprises larger and larger proportions of population. Therefore, urban environmental management is amongst the most important challenges...

The phenomenon of globalization in full swing "eroded" the concept of sustainable development. Its principles were replaced with others imposed by transnational corporations by liberalizing product markets, capital, information and labour. The interplay between the effects of globalization...