Troubled Lands: The Legacy of Soviet Environmental Destruction

ISBN-13: 9780367212124 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 298 str.

D. J. Peterson

Opis

The dramatic revelations of environmental catastrophe in the Soviet Union made during the late 1980s and early 1990s were a driving force behind reform in, and later the demise of the communist party-state. But while the Union no longer exists, the independent republics confront the same dilemmas that plagued the Soviet state: Will the goal of econ

Spis treści

Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction -- The Air -- The Water -- The Land -- Solid and Hazardous Waste -- Government Institutions and Environmental Policy -- The Environmental Movement and Environmental Politics -- The Environment and Economic Transition

O autorze

DJ Peterson is a Graduate Fellow at the RAND/UCLA Center for Soviet Studies in Santa Monica, California, and a PhD candidate in Political Science at UCLA. In 1989-1990, Mr. Peterson worked as a research analyst at Radio Liberty in Munich, Germany, where he specialized in Soviet domestic affairs.