Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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1514525 | Energy Procedia | 2011 | 7 Pages |
The multi-industry field, the bioterrorism the physical, chemical and biochemical changes have caused emissions that affect in a terrifying way air, water and soil pollution. Environment is in fact an integrated aspect of life, and any environmental risk cannot stop at national borders, and cannot acknowledge geopolitics but rather transcends them to touch everybody, to the increase in the temperature of the earth surface and causes desertification, which causes threats and huge human costs…Locally, there is a general legislative silence applied against the environmental crimes committed. Administratively, the Lebanese Ministry of Environment has important tasks. But there is rather an urgent need for Punitive legislative policy and implementing international and regional conventions, Establishment of an independent environmental judicial system and an independent environment police, Establishment of a higher environment committee, Expanding the concept of “national security” in order to include environmental security, Promoting environmental general and specialized culture, organizing training sessions, increasing civil society cooperation, promoting media action in terms of environment and environmental affairs…Finally, the right to a clean environment is the third of human rights following civil and political rights.