SECURITY THREATS AND CHALLENGES - INADEQUATE WASTE MANAGEMENT AT THE LOCAL LEVEL IN THE REPUBLIC OF SERBIA.

Inadequate management of waste originating from industry and other activities, communal and service actions, health protection, agriculture and natural person’s activities, creates threats and security challenges at the local level within the Republic of Serbia (RS). In this paper, the author systemically analyzes and assess all these problems regarding the diverse generation of waste putting it in the context of public authorities’ jurisdiction on all levels, as well as in the context of waste generators. It is specifically assessed in the context of strategic planning documents, laws and bylaws, historical pollution (temporarily stored waste), unsuitable (criminal) waste disposal in locations that are not designed for such purposes, as well as security challenges and threats in that sense. A landfill as a complex has a direct impact on the environment and its mediums, which is especially analyzed in this paper, as well as its impact on human health and the quality of life. Moreover, through an analysis of these impacts and threats (by stating concrete examples for these statements) in the Republic of Serbia, the manners for potential reduction of all these challenges and threats in the local environment are analyzed and discussed with the help of various contemporary approaches and models already applied world-wide, and the recommendations for their use are provided. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]