ABSTRACT
Environmental management may be built into the framework of traditional economy and be limited to natural resource management. The management goal in this case is to provide resources to economic development. The economic uncertainty creates a vacuum of power, which contributes to environmental abuse and hinders effective management. In these conditions, any definite choice of the development pathway, no matter which one, would be better for environmental management, than no choice at all. Sustainability is certainly enticing for the developed economic systems, which have reached the conservation phase, and would rather endure this stage for as long as possible. The population is educated and the achievements of science and technology are matchlessly high for the level of economic development of the country. Most of the Western recipes for environmental management are designed for decentralised market economies and democratic societies with comparatively strong and accepted enforcement of regulatory control.
