The volume presents East and West European perceptions of pollution problems under various scientific perspectives, with regard to national experiences and in view of possible solutions. I discusses scientific, political and educational attempts to cope with the problems and underlying attitudes. At the same time, a strong call is heard in Eastern and Western Europe for closer cooperation beyond scientific and ideological perspectives since "pollution knows no frontiers."

On the whole, environmental problems unmask man's limited ability to interrelate the social sphere harmoniously to the bio-sphere.