The Post-Soviet Decline of Central Asia: Sustainable Development and Comprehensive Capital

ISBN-13: 9780700716609 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 260 str.

Eric W. Sievers

Opis

Sievers draws on his experience of Central Asia to take on the task of explaining the remarkable economic declines of the post-Soviet Central Asian states (Kazakhstan, Kyrgystan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan) in the past decade, and the turn of these states towards despotism.

Sievers presents a compelling and unorthodox challenge to development agencies, scholars and human rights organizations to realize the implications of globalization and the challenges of sustainable development in Central Asia.

Spis treści

Introduction: Central Asia in Transition - The Capital of Sustainable Development 1. Natural Capital: The Central Asian Human and Natural Environment 2. Human Capital: Health, Education and Science in Central Asia 3. Formal Organizational Capital: Governments and Markets 4. Social Capital: Civil Society and Solidarity 5. International Environmentral Regimes and International Environmentral Law 6. Case Studies: Internationalizing the Central Asian Environment Conclusions: Prospects for Sustainable Development in Central Asia

O autorze

Eric W. Sievers is currently associated with Harvard University's Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies and is an attorney in the Central Asian practice of LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae, L.L.P. Sievers managed and directed a number of development projects in Central Asia throughout the 1990s. He holds a Ph.D. from MIT and a J.D. from Yale.