Concern with protecting the environment for the benefit of present and future generations is now at the center of the international agenda. Awareness of the extent of the damage done to our environment through unsustainable economic activities is steadily growing. In particular there is growing...

The present paper describes some of the increasingly controversial and debated - at a planetary level - implications and interrelations generated by the quot;man-environmentquot; binominal, in an attempt to motivate the main causes of environmental degradation. As a natural consequence of the...