1st Edition
Environmental Transitions Transformation and Ecological Defense in Central and Eastern Europe
384 Pages
by
Routledge
384 Pages
by
Routledge
384 Pages
by
Routledge
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Environmental Transitions is a detailed and comprehensive account of the environmental changes in Central and Eastern Europe, both under state socialism and during the period of transition to capitalism. The change in politics in the late 1980s and early 1990s allowed an opportunity for a rapid environmental clean up, in an area once considered one of the most environmentally devastated regions... Read more
I: Introduction; 1: The political economy of environmental transitions; 2: Theorizing social and environmental change; II: Nature, risk and the legacies of state socialism; 3: Environmental quality in Central and Eastern Europe; 4: Nature, society and extensive industrialization; 5: Social and environmental regulation under state socialism; 6: Constructing risk; III: Post-communist transformations and the environment; 7: Post-communist reform and the democratization of nature; 8: Environmental legislation and policy; 9: State, environment and information in post-communist transformations; 10: Environmental effects of post-communist transformations; IV: Nature in post-communist societies; 11: Conclusion
Biography
Petr Pavlínek, John Pickles
