Pollution in the Western Balkans State of the Art and Current Challenges - An Overview

The countries of the Western Balkans share a common recent history of conflicts and instability, followed by transition process possibly leading towards EU membership sometime in the future. They share high quality environmental and natural resources such as high level of biodiversity compared to the rest of Europe, characteristic landscape, mountains, forests, lakes and rivers, coast and marine environment. But they also share problems related to environmental pollution that are threatening the health of their people, causing damage to the economy and threatening the loss of resources foe the future