Environment and Democratic Transition:

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-x

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2. Environmental Policy and Politics in Central and Eastern Europe: Introduction and Overview

   • Anna Vari, Pal Tamas

   Pages 1-4

3. Environmental Policy in the Czech and Slovak Republic

   • Richard N. L. Andrews

   Pages 5-48

4. Environmental Affairs and the Emergence of Pluralism in Poland: A Case of Political Symbiosis

   • Stanley J. Kabala

   Pages 49-66

5. Environmental Policy in a Transition Economy: The Bulgarian Example

   • Kristalina Georgieva

   Pages 67-87

6. Public Participation Laws, Regulations and Practices in Seven Countries in Central and Eastern Europe: An Analysis Emphasizing Impacts on the Development Decision-Making Process

   • Stephen Stec

   Pages 88-119

7. Environmental Initiatives in Russia: East-West Comparisons

   • Oleg Yanitsky

   Pages 120-145

8. The Structural Mechanisms of the Organization of Ecological — Social Movements in Hungary

   • Viktoria Szirmai

   Pages 146-156

9. Environmental Protest as a Vehicle for Transition: The Case of Ekoglasnost in Bulgaria

   • Bernd Baumgartl

   Pages 157-175

10. An International Environmental Conflict on the Danube: The Gabcikovo-Nagymaros Dams

    • Judit Galambos

    Pages 176-226

11. Environmental Conflict and Political Change: Public Perception on Low-Level Radioactive Waste Management in Hungary

    • Judit Juhasz, Anna Vari, Janos Tolgyesi

    Pages 227-248

12. Ecological Consciousness in the USSR: Entering the 1990s

    • Boris Z. Doktorov, Boris M. Firsov, Viatcheslav V. Safronov

    Pages 249-267

13. Environmental Risks in a Society in Transition: Perceptions and Reactions

    • Nikolai Genov

    Pages 268-280

14. Back Matter

    Pages 281-285

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Recent democratization and the accompanied liberalization of the media in Central and Eastern Europe has brought the devastating environmental impacts of the intensive and careless industrialization of the last 40 years to the surface. Less is known, however, about the social, political and institutional background of environmental risk management which led to the present situation, as well as about recent changes.
Environment and Democratic Transition: Policy and Politics in Central and Eastern Europe provides an overview of the mechanism of policy making, the role of the scientific community, the environmental movements, and the public in risk controversies in Central and Eastern Europe from the 1970s until 1991. The book brings together studies by leading social scientists from the East and the West who investigate the economic, legal, institutional, behavioral, social and political aspects of environmental policy. In addition to analyzing past histories, most contributions focus also on challenges, pitfalls and dilemmas that the region's policy makers and environmentalists must face during the period of transition and into the future.

• Change
• Institution
• Policy
• Protest
• calculus
• conflict
• development
• economy
• environmental policy
• management
• organization
• politics
• risk management
• transition

• State University of New York, Albany, USA

  Anna Vari

• Institute for Social Conflict Research, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary

  Anna Vari, Pal Tamas

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