Environmental action in Eastern Europe : responses to crisis

Author(s)

• Jancar-Webster, Barbara

Bibliographic Information

Environmental action in Eastern Europe : responses to crisis

edited by Barbara Jancar-Webster

M.E. Sharpe, c1993

• : hbk
• : pbk

Note

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

The environmental crisis in Eastern Europe - air and water pollution, toxic waste dumps, and unsafe nuclear facilities - has been vividly documented since the revolution of 1989. Not only did the communist states have an abysmal record of environmental destruction, but the issue of environmental protection and safety proved to be one of the msot powerful catalysts of unified opposition to these regimes. This collection of essays by both Western and East European experts examines the efforts to develop strategies for dealing with the crisis, both by governments and at the grassroots level of newly emerging Green movements. Among the countries represented here are Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Lithuania, Slovenia and the Commonwealth of Independent States.

Table of Contents

• Chapter 1 Introduction, Barbara Jancar-Webster
• Part I Problems and Changes in Environmental Management
• Chapter 2 Political and Social Changes in Poland, Jakub Szacki, Irmina G?owacka, Anna Liro, Barbara Szulczewska
• Chapter 3 New Directions in Environmental Management in Hungary, Sandor Peter
• Chapter 4 Environmental Management in Czecho-Slovakia, Eva Adamova
• Chapter 5 Old and New in the Environmental Policy of the Former Soviet Union, Michael Kozeltsev
• Chapter 6 New Directions in Environmental Protection Management in the Baltic States, Evaldas Vebra
• Part II The Influence of Environmental Movements
• Chapter 7 The Emergence of the Environmental Movement in Eastern Europe and Its Role in the Revolutions of 1989, Duncan Fisher
• Chapter 8 The History of Environmental Protection in Poland and the Growth of Awareness and Activism, Stanley J. Kabala
• Chapter 9 Red Pollution, Green Evolution, Revolution in Hungary, Miklos Persanyi
• Chapter 10 Ecology in Slovenia, Leo Seserko
• Chapter 11 Soviet Greens: Who Are They?, Evgenii A. Shvarts, Irina Prochozova
• Chapter 12 The East European Environmental Movement and the Transformation of East European Society, Barbara Jancar-Webster
• Chapter 13 Conclusion, Barbara Jancar-Webster

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BA21120128
• ISBN:
  • 156324036X
  • 1563241870
• LCCN: 92037852
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Armonk, N.Y.
• Pages/Volumes: 238 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • NDC9 : 519.1
  • LCC : HC244.Z9
  • DC20 : 363.7/056/0947
  • DC : 333.70947
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Environmental policy -- Europe, Eastern -- Congresses
  • LCSH : Europe, Eastern -- Economic policy -- 1989- -- Congresses
  • FREE : Environment
  • FREE : Eastern Europe