The twenty seventh and twenty eighth academic year of the Seminar's program in publication is dedicated primarily to the environmental problems of the Carpathian Basin in Central Europe. The interaction of the transition to the market-oriented society at the growing industrial pollution creates a unique challenge to solve these environmental problems.
The content of this volume can be grouped in the followings:
1. The articles of the Columbia University Seminars team is dealing with the environmental data gathering in Hungary, pollution of the underground fuel storage tanks and some physiological ecology issues.
2. Slovakia's erosion problems of the agricultural lands are assessed.
3. Assessment of the environmental problems in Subcarpathia, Ukraine and Croatia including catastrophic pollution from the Transylvanian industry in Romania is treated.
4. Priority of the Hungarian national policy in nature preservation and its economic social limitation regarding the transition to the market-oriented society.
5. Environmental protection curriculum in the Hungarian educational system.
6. Regional human activities on surface and groundwater regime.