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8th International Conference on the Mediterranean Coastal Environment, Alexandria, Canada, 13 - 17 November 2007, pp.407-414
Parallel to a noteworthy increase in negative environmental impacts caused by human activities, the sector which provides remedies to all of these inconveniences is also growing drastically. The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) reports that Americans spend more than $200 billion, nearly 3% of the gross national product, a year to control and clean up pollution. Environmental technologies and services producing sector of the world turned to be one of the fastest growing and labor creating industry which controlled almost entirely by the developed and industrialized countries. Current ecological or environmental science is largely a political and/or economic construct, reflecting mostly the values and interests of the developed countries rather than those of developing countries.