East Central Europe and the Former Soviet Union: Environment and Society

ISBN-13: 9780340692165 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 288 str.

Turnock David

Opis

In this new textbook, Turnock assesses the entire former Soviet Union, including the former socialist states on its western border. The whole area is involved in a transition away from a system of totalitarian government and central planning, yet this is taking place among landscapes with extremely varied cultural and environmental qualities.

Spis treści

Part 1 - Historical-cultural legacies / The states system and the shaping of the ethnic guilt / Twentieth century geopolitics as the base of Soviet planning / Development cycles and the role of the railway / Phases of urbanisation and changing town-country relations / Part 2 - Contemporary human processes / Ethnicity / Trade and foreign relations / Agrarian change / Industrial restructuring / Urban systems / Rebuilding the service sector / Transport integration and the creation of missing links / Competition between the regions / Part 3 - Environmental management / Communist plans to transform the landscape / Major ecological dislocations / Towards a sustainable agriculture / Industry, pollution and sensitive environments / Power and the nuclear question / Biosphere reserves, national parks and urban conservation.

O autorze

David Turnock is Emeritus Professor of Human Geography at the University of Leicester, UK.