ABSTRACT
In the held of environment, important programs, some of them involving global cooperation under the United Nations Environment Programme, have been set forth as a consequence of the Stockholm conference of 1972. A global model commissioned by the United Nations, under the direction of Professor Leontief and recently released, has given useful indications in regard to costs. The need for designs has expressed itself most powerfully, through the International Development Strategy in 1970 and through the Programme and Plan of Action for a New International Economic Order. The state of cooperation on a global level differs greatly in its intensity and manifestations from one field to another. A comprehensive set of institutions and arrangements has been established, which brings the international community to a measure of central management than it has ever been. The conceptual problems relating to the place of environment protection in the complex set of objectives of the international and national societies have not been significantly elucidated.
