Environment management in Poland

Abstract

This publication is devoted chiefly to environment management at state level and at particular levels of the territorial division. The publication was divided into ten chapters which can be characterized in terms of groups. The first five chapters include description of the environment management system in Poland. The first chapter is the only part of this book that has theoretical character. The chapter includes the basic concepts, presents the theoretical model of environment management system and shows the analysis of the macrosystem society-economy-environment as the management subject and object. The chapters 2-5 include presentation of particular elements of the environment management system. There were described general legislative regulations with division into: the regulations of constitutional character, international, union and national ones, as well as management measures such as system organization, ecological information and outlays on environmental protection and sources of financing them. In chapters 4 and 5 there were described management measures and instruments – ecological policy, sustainable development strategies and environmental protection programs and plans as well as instruments: legislative and administrative, economic, of voluntary usage and of social influence. Chapters 6-10 concern management of the main elements of the system – respectively: natural protection, protection of the atmospheric air, water management, waste management and ecological safety. Description of each of these elements was done in accordance with the model of management system by isolating management organs and institutions, instruments and management subject and object