Environmental Influences Paper - France

Introduction
France, officially French Republic (République française), is a country whose metropolitan territory is located in Western Europe and that is further made up of a collection of overseas islands and territories located in other continents. ("France", 2006) France today is one of the most modern countries in the world and is a leader among the European nations. "Since 1958, it has constructed a presidential democracy resistant to the instabilities experienced in earlier parliamentary democracies. …