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

by Susan Baker, Petr Jehlicka

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780714643106
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/30/1998
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Susan Baker, Petr Jehlicka

Table of Contents

Dilemmas of transition - the environment, democracy and economic reform in East Central Europe - an introduction, Susan Baker, Petr Jehlicka. Part 1 Environmental policy and the transition process in Central and Eastern Europe: geopolitics and the environment in Eastern Europe, Michael Waller; financing environmental policy in East Central Europe, Ans Kolk, Ewout van de Weij; environmental movement and social change in the transition countries, Barbara Jancar-Webster. Part 2 Country studies: Hungary - political transformation and environmental challenge, Laurence J. O'Toole, Jr.; Kenneth Hanf; sustainable development in the Czech Republic - a doomed process? Adam Fagin, Petr Jehlicka; rejecting green velvet - transition, environment and nationalism in Slovakia, Jurj Podoba; environmental policy in Poland, Frances Millard; environmental action during Romania's early transition years, Simina Dragomirescu et al; Bulgaria - managing the environment in an unstable transition, Susan Baker, Bernd Baumgartl.

Editorial Reviews

Explores how the rise of democracy and capitalism in the region has impacted the physical environment, the expression of environmental interest, and the effectiveness of environmental management policies. Three considerations of overall themes are followed by studies of six countries. They find that political and economic instability and external pressures have displaced environmental considerations from center stage. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Booknews

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

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