Sustainable development and the need to manage taxes on pollution (original) (raw)

The Extractive Industry And Its Impact Upon The Environment

The extractive industry is unanimously acknowledged as being a vital sector of any country which owns workable natural resources. The experts claim that this industry is a source of foreign income, of direct foreign investments and it is also the main and sometimes the only energy provider of a country. The activities carried out within the extractive industry of any country provide employment to population and contribute to the public budget by taxes and dues, while the incomes resulted from these activities can be directed towards charity; however, at the same time, there is a certain environmental risk related to each initiative that is being carried out in this industry.

Dimensions Of Sustainable Development In Extractive Industry

The concept of sustainable development, resulted from the reconsideration of the report between development and pollution in the light of the interdependencies among the components of development, defines the profound change in which the exploitation of resources, direction of investments, the development of technologies takes a new path in the sense that, by their judicious harmonization, provides significant increase of the present and future potential to meet the requirements of society. Such a development is based on economic growth, which is, in fact, its spring, but also on new concepts and values that provide a superior framework of transposing the growth coordinates. Such a framework should provide incentives to accelerate economic growth, whose objectives, ways and tools are defined in a long-term perspective, able to provide large openings to the real progress of society at all levels and provide solutions for the effective and continuous support for this progress. Therefore, in this article, we identify and explain the three dimensions of sustainable development: economic, social and environmental.

Environmental Protection in the Context of the Economic Development and Growth

Political Economy - Development: Environment eJournal, 2015

People have recently started to show a particular interest for the link existing between economy and ecology, including the environmental protection. This way, a new domain, called ecologic economy or eco-economy, has sprung into existence, aiming at the ensuring of the puttinginto- practice of the decisions regarding productive and social capital, while taking into account the characteristics of the natural capital, by using an ecological, economic and social accounting, both on a short and on a long term.There is a significant interest for reaching a balance between the degree of environmental deterioration the level of economic development, and also for getting over the touchy elements of the link between economy and ecology so as to achieve a peaceful relation between humanity and environment, seen as a main goal for ensuring the continuity of the human race in the geosistema planetary space.

The Natural Resources and Sustainable Development

CERCETARI AGRONOMICE IN MOLDOVA (AGRONOMIC RESEARCH IN MOLDAVIA)

The use of natural resources into the productive technological processes means the direct consumption of resources for satisfaction of needs of products and services. The exploitation of natural resources can be performed into a complex, coordinated manner, through the simultaneous satisfaction of more consumption demands.The actual generation evidently supports the degradation and sometimes decreasing of natural resources because of the past generations. The future generation will support not only the actual cost of environment degradation, of natural resources diminishing but also the cost of accumulation into the environment of atmospheric pollutants and toxic heavy metals, of losing the tropical forests and biodiversity. For this reason it is necessary the actual consideration of the needs for the future generation, even if that implies supplementary charges for political institutions that are obliged to satisfy only the economical, social and environmental demands and needs for the actual generation.

Natural resources and sustainable development

2008

The use of natural resources into the productive technological processes means the direct consumption of resources for satisfaction of needs of products and services. The exploitation of natural resources can be performed into a complex, coordinated manner, through the simultaneous satisfaction of more consumption demands.The actual generation evidently supports the degradation and sometimes decreasing of natural resources because of the past generations. The future generation will support not only the actual cost of environment degradation, of natural resources diminishing but also the cost of accumulation into the environment of atmospheric pollutants and toxic heavy metals, of losing the tropical forests and biodiversity. For this reason it is necessary the actual consideration of the needs for the future generation, even if that implies supplementary charges for political institutions that are obliged to satisfy only the economical, social and environmental demands and needs for the actual generation.

Extractive industry a burden or an opportunity for sustainable development?

European Journal of Sustainable Development

The shortage of raw materials in global markets and the sky rocketing of commodityprices, have induced European authorities to take initiatives to improve innovation inEurope by creating the European Innovation Partnership on Raw Materials (2012) and make inventory of the existing European raw materials. Albania is a rich country in natural raw materials, such as chromium, copper, ferronickel, coal, bitumen as well ascrude oil which might supply primary and secondary raw materials for some of the European needs. This literature review discusses the role of the Albanian institutions, the natural resources industry, potential investors and stakeholders in order to provide a setof indicators and platforms that can help to develop the extractive industry in Albania and monitor amelioration within sustainable development principles. A map with the potential prospects of the natural resources will be a first step in identifying the further potential for exploitation. Mineral resource poli...

The Evolution of the Concept of Environmental Protection from an Economic Perspective

2015

The concept of protection of the environment dates back before our era; it has undergone different modifications and approaches, always adapting itself to new challenges, trying to offer viable solutions to them. Classical Economics has the merit of having associated the economic problems with the ecological ones, an idea which was then adopted by the neoclassical thinking, the very one that formulated the notion of “ecological economy” as a new branch of research.A new degree of economic understanding of the ecological problems has been reached thanks to the concept of “sustainable development”. In order to attain the targets of this type of development, a series of economic instruments, whose benefits may lead to identifying new solutions for protecting the environment, can be used. The economic instruments have met different approaches in countries from all over the world, at first mainly occidental, but then being consecrated and integrated in the policy of interstate organisati...