Open AccessSECURITY THREATS AND CHALLENGES - INADEQUATE WASTE MANAGEMENT AT THE LOCAL LEVEL IN THE REBUPLIC OF SERBIA
Author(s) -
Dragoljub Jovanović,
Tatjana Živković
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
teme
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1820-7804
pISSN - 0353-7919
DOI - 10.22190/teme191011058j
Subject(s) - context (archaeology) , business , jurisdiction , environmental planning , agriculture , the republic , human security , political science , law , geography , archaeology , philosophy , theology
Inadequate management of waste originating from economic and other activities, communal and service actions, health protection, agriculture and natural person’s activities, creates threats and security challenges on a local level within the Republic of Serbia (RS). In this paper, the author systemically analyzes and assess all these problems regarding generating waste of different origin, putting it in a context of public authorities’ jurisdiction on all levels, as well as of waste generators. It is especially assessed in the context of strategic planning documents, laws and bylaws, historical pollution (temporarily stored waste), unsuitable (criminal) waste disposal in locations that are not designed for such acts, as well as security challenges and threats in that sense. A landfill as a complex has a direct impact on the environment and its mediums, which is especially analyzed in this paper, as well as its impact on human health and the quality of life. Moreover, through an analysis of these impacts and threats (by stating concrete examples for these statements) in the Republic of Serbia, the manners for potential reduction of all these challenges and threats in a local environment are analyzed and discussed with the help of various contemporary approaches and models that are applied world-wide, and recommendations for their use are provided.