1st Edition

Dilemmas of Transition The Environment, Democracy and Economic Reform in East Central Europe

By Susan Baker, Petr Jehlicka Copyright 1998

    This volume explores the impact of democratization and marketization on the environment in East Central Europe. The essays investigate: how the twin processes of change affect the physical environment; the expression of environmental interest; and environmental management policies.

    Chapter 1 Dilemmas of Transition: The Environment, Democracy and Economic Reform in East Central Europe — An Introduction, SUSAN BAKER, PETR JEHLI?KA; Part I Environmental Policy and the Transition Process in Central and Eastern Europe; Chapter 2 Geopolitics and the Environment in Eastern Europe, MICHAEL WALLER; Chapter 3 Financing Environmental Policy in East Central Europe, ANS KOLK, EWOUT VAN DER WEIJ; Chapter 4 Environmental Movement and Social Change in the Transition Countries, BARBARA JANCAR-WEBSTER; Part II Country Studies; Chapter 5 Hungary: Political Transformation and Environmental Challenge, LAURENCE J.KENNETH O'TOOLEJr., HANF; Chapter 6 Sustainable Development in the Czech Republic: A Doomed Process?, ADAM FAGIN, PETR JEHLI?KA; Chapter 7 Rejecting Green Velvet: Transition, Environment and Nationalism in Slovakia, JURAJ PODOBA; Chapter 8 Environmental Policy in Poland, FRANCES MILLARD; Chapter 9 Environmental Action during Romania's Early Transition Years, SIMINA DRAGOMIRESCU, CRISTINA MUICA, DAVID TURNOCK; Chapter 10 Bulgaria: Managing the Environment in an Unstable Transition, SUSAN BAKER, BERND BAUMGARTL;

    Biography

    Susan Baker, Petr Jehli?ka

    'An excellent general survey of environmental politics and policy in post-communist East Central Europe(ECE) to 1997.' - Environmental Politics