The turmoil that shook Eastern Europe in the late 1980s and challenged traditional centers of power in the Soviet Union has touched off an intense debate about the forces behind the recent collapse of Soviet-type systems. Civil society, a key concept in the debate, is the focus of this thought-provo
Environmental Problems in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe
โ Scribed by Fred Singleton (editor)
- Publisher
- Lynne Rienner Publishers
- Year
- 2023
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 216
- Category
- Library
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โฆ Synopsis
Explores specific environmental problems and examines the attitudes of policymakers toward the environment, and toward environmentalists, in the U.S.S.R., Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Yugoslavia.
โฆ Table of Contents
Contents
Foreword
1 Introduction
2 Survey of Soviet Material on Environmental Problems
3 The Soviet Approach to Environmental
4 The Function of Nature Reserves in the Soviet Union
5 Agricultural Development and Soil Degradation in the Soviet Union: Policies, Patterns, and Trends
6 Regional Alternatives in Soviet Timber Management
7 The New Towns on the Baikal-Amur Mainline: A Study of Continuity and Contradiction in the Urbanization of Siberia
8 The Environmental Crisis in Poland
9 Czechoslovakia: Greens Versus Reds
10 National Parks and Conservation of Nature in Yugoslavia
Index
Contributors
Publications of the Third World Congress for Soviet and East European Studies
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