1st Edition

Environmental Security And Quality After Communism Eastern Europe And The Soviet Successor States

Edited By Joan DeBardeleben Copyright 1995
    198 Pages
    by Routledge

    198 Pages
    by Routledge

    This volume, based on papers presented at a conference on Environmental Security after Communism at Carleton University, explores the linkages between environmental quality and security in Eastern Europe and the Soviet successor states.

    0. Introduction Part One: The Environment as a Security Problem in the Post-Communist World 1. Environmental Security After Communism: The Debate 2. Military Activity and Environmental Security: The Case of Radioactivity in the Arctic 3. Environmental Degradation and Regional Instability in Central Europe Part Two: The Environment and the Energy Sector 4. The Post-Soviet Nuclear Power Program 5. Energy and the Environment in Eastern Europe Part Three: National and Regional Dimensions of Environmental Quality 6. Building Bureaucratic Capacity in Russia: Federal and Regional Responses to the Post-Soviet Environmental Challenge 7. Citizen Participation and the Environment in Russia 8. Central Asia: How to Pick up the Pieces? 9. The Environmental Impact of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania on the Baltic Sea Region