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

ISBN-13: 9780714647647 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 224 str.

Susan Baker; Petr Jehlicka

Opis

This volume explores the impact of the twin process of democratization and marketization on the environment in East Central Europe. Three environmental matters are investigated: how the twin processes of change have affected the physical environment; the expression of environmental interest; and the effectiveness of environmental management policies. The book also examines the role of the European Union because of the influence it exercises on environmental policy in East Central Europe. It finds that political and economic instability and external pressures have displaced environmental considerations from centre stage. This has meant a failure within East Central Europe to realise a more far-reaching and more sustainable approach towards the management of transition.

Recenzje

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

Spis treści

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;

O autorze

Susan Baker, Petr Jehli?ka