Transition and sustainability : actors and interests in Eastern European environmental policies
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Transition and sustainability : actors and interests in Eastern European environmental policies
（International environmental law and policy series）
Kluwer Law International, 1997
- : hardcover
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Description
This study links two of the main themes in European social science in the 1990s: the transition of Eastern Europe and the question of sustainable development. Employing an interdisciplinary approach, the book analyzes both viewpoints - Eastern Europe as a case of environmental development and the environment as an example of the difficulties of the Eastern European transition. The author argues that sustainable development takes on a specific meaning in the context of transition. After documenting the history of environmental policy in Bulgaria based on both Western and Eastern sources, the relevant actors for the Eastern European environment and their interests are identified. It is recognized that in the course of post-Communist transition other issues like the emergence of parties, privatization or restitution of property were given higher importance. In both Eastern and Western Europe the environmental question was also overshadowed by economic constraints and came low on the reform agenda. Nevertheless, concrete policy recommendations suggest ways in which sustainable development might also be achieved in transition economies.
Table of Contents
- The environment and Eastern Europe
- difficulties in transition and development
- environmental policy - plurilateral explanations necessary
- four sets of environmental actors
- issues in environmental policy
- environment and development - lessons from Eastern Europe. Part 2 Two key concepts: "Transition" and "Sustainable Development"
- transition
- sustainable development
- sustainable development in Eastern Europe. Part 3 Environmental movements in Bulgaria: communism and the environment
- opposition against Communism
- the role of environmental protest in the Bulgarian transition
- explaining a movement's emergence - East and West
- prospects for the Bulgarian Greens. Part 4 Domestic constraints and the post-communist enthusiasm
- salient features
- environmental situation
- political and economic constraints
- criticism of IAS study
- Bulgaria and the European Union. Part 5 The international community
- environmentalism as a determinant of East-West relations
- Western East policy and its regimes - changing external structures
- Eastern response and internal change
- integration and dependence - policy implications. Part 6 The role of firms
- the potential impact of firms on environmental awareness
- two examples of key areas for future development. Part 7 Conclusions and recommendations
- new policy instruments
- power distribution and interest constellation amongst environmental actors
- policy recommendations and outlook.
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