Environmental Challenges for Balkan Emerging Countries - An Overview
Abstract
Balkan countries are ex-communist countries that must recover from structural and development gaps (Moldovan and Lobont. 2014, Nuta et al., 2015a, Nuta, 2008; Nuta et al., 2023; Nuta and Nuta, 2012). At the same time, they need to adapt rapidly to the new green economic growth paradigm and to involve actively in environmental protection. Their ecological protection regulatory framework was subjugated to the need to attract investors from abroad to ensure an increased economic output at the cost of environmental degradation, as in all ex-communist developing economies (Khan et al., 2023; Nuta, 2011; Nuta and Nuta, 2017; Nuta et al., 2021; Shahbaz et al., 2023; Tiwari et al., 2023). The study's primary goal is to assess the actual situation and the perspectives for the shift from economic growth based on raw materials exploitation and heavy industry towards green economic options and energy efficiency.
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