TRANSITION TO GREEN ECONOMY IN ROMANIA
This article had as starting point the evolution of expenditures for environmental protection in Romania. Evolution of environmental expenditures recorded a general upward trend, with a decrease in 2009, which can b e explained as a result of the economic crisis. The first step was to conduct an overall analysis. This was followed by an analysis by fields and by categories of producers. The processed data were taken from the National Institute of Statistics. An increase of these expenditures, both overall and by categories was observed from the analysis of trends. This increase suggests an improvement in the implementation of environmental objectives in order to ensure a harmonious and long -term transition to a green economy.
The Transition to a Green Economy : Benefits , Challenges and Risks from a Sustainable Development Perspective Report by a Panel of Experts
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The coming anarchy : shattering the dreams of the post Cold War
Our pro forma geopolitical worldview that served for fifty years of the Cold War was thoroughly shattered with the fall of the Berlin Wall and the subsequent collapse of the Soviet Union in 1990. While there is political and ideological discourse about its nature and purpose, it is arguable that the bipolar Cold War world has been replaced by a “new world order.” This term is used here descriptively, not prescriptively as some foreign policy gurus might in advocating a particular configuration of power with the United States, or some other power, at its center. To describe is not to advocate, and my use of the “new world order,” as is Kaplan’s use of the term “coming anarchy,” is purely descriptive. Following my presentation on “the new world order” for faculty at an East African university in the mid-1990s, a faculty member from the university responded. He began by stating, “I will have to argue that the current world situation is neither ‘new’ nor ‘worldly’ nor ‘orderly.’ Otherwise, I agree with you completely.” He went on to suggest that from his East African perspective domination of the international political system by major powers persisted as it had throughout the previous world order, the post-World War II era. Change was not “worldly,” i.e. global, because his part of the world had not seen the profound changes that had transformed first world-second world relationships. Finally, with the current disorder in Africa, he concluded that the situation was hardly “orderly.” Into this implicit discussion of the nature of the postCold War international system have come several bold descriptions of the nature of the evolving system. Three explicit examples were first put forward in journal or magazine articles followed by books that expanded upon the theme (and capitalized upon the substantial intellectual excitement generated by the original publication). First came Francis Fukuyama, formerly of the Reagan State Department and now at James Mason University, with his reassuring