Agricultural Changes in Poland and the Ukraine and their Implications for Environmental Quality

• Autorzy: Yuriy Nesterov
• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

Socio-economic processes strongly influence how people interact with the environment, especially in the field of agriculture. The ways people are forced, advised, or opt to use agricultural ecosystems vary from country to country and depend on political Systems, economic conditions and traditions. From this point of view it is very interesting and useful to examine how agricultural change has occurred as a result of politico-economic change. Along with the politico-economic transformation that occurred after the collapse of the Soviet Union and its economy, the societies of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) changed their way of using environmental resources and generating agricultural production in the early 1990s. The socio-economic changes affected both the use of agricultural ecosystems and the conseąuences for local environmental conditions. It is possible to compare the changes among selected countries of CEE, taking into account the pace of reforms in each of them, and to determine how the pace of transformation is related to the impact of agricultural production on environmental ąuality. The research goal of this article is to examine and compare the agricultural situation in Poland and the Ukraine. The main tendencies that are examined include use of fertilisers and livestock numbers. (fragment of text)

Słowa kluczowe

EN

Agriculture development; Political and economic situation; Ecological agriculture

PL

Rozwój rolnictwa; Sytuacja polityczno-ekonomiczna; Rolnictwo ekologiczne

• Czasopismo: Economic and Environmental Studies
• Rocznik: 2004
• Numer: Vol. 6
• Strony: 91--104

Twórcy

autor

Yuriy Nesterov

• Institute of Ecology, Kiev, Ukraine

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