Europe's Environment is a unique multimedia resource for schools, offering new and exciting ways of exploring European environmental issues with students of 11-16. The use of environmental information and the impact of the electronic information highway. The highlights and responses of the report area by area. The report covers the state of the environment in allmost all of Europes nearly 50 States. Introduction to the scope and coverage of Europe's Environment - The Dobris Assessment.
Environmental change occurs as a result of both natural and human processes.
Environmental systems and human activities contribute to environmental changes through the transformation and transportation of large quantities of energy and materials. Natural systems transform the sun's energy into living matter and cause changes by cycling materials through geological, biological, oceanic and atmospheric processes. Human activities transform materials and energy into products and services. The results of the assessment presented in the various parts of this report are necessarily detailed and specific. On several aspects, current knowledge of environmental processes and observations of facts lead with confidence to certain conclusions.