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- Reveals the politics of asymmetric environmental governance in the post-Soviet area
- Finds a basis on first-hand interviews with key policy-makers and a deep study of government documents
- Shows how corruption weakened civil society organizations, and how path-dependent practices persist
Part of the book series: Societies and Political Orders in Transition (SOCPOT)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This book examines why authoritarian governments are willing to address environmental problems that have an international impact, such as CO2 emissions, but are reluctant to address problems that have only a domestic impact. In a case study of Azerbaijani oil politics, it demonstrates how the incumbent Azerbaijani regime has taken important measures trying to address CO2 emissions while ignoring the damage caused by oil pollution on the Caspian coast. The book argues that resource-rich authoritarian governments are eager to join international environmental initiatives to improve their image, but they address domestic environmental issues mainly if they threaten their hold on power.
This book is an important contribution to scholarship on environmental governance in the post-Soviet space, an area that is poorly researched. Therefore, it is a must-read for researchers and scholars interested in post-Soviet studies, as well as in the nexusbetween mineral-rich regions and how social policy is created, e.g., environment, education, and healthcare. In addition, this book will be of tremendous importance for policymakers and international organizations as it looks into the motivation of authoritarian states in the post-Soviet space for environmental measures.
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Authors and Affiliations
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Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Agshin Umudov
About the author
International Relations of the Qafqaz University in Baku (Azerbaijan). From 2012-2013, he worked as a project assistant at Renewables Academy (RENAC AG) in Berlin for the “TrEff –Training in Energy Efficiency”
project, financed by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi) to support energy efficiency initiatives in Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, and Ukraine.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Asymmetric Environmental Governance in Azerbaijan
Book Subtitle: Oil Pollution and Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Authors: Agshin Umudov
Series Title: Societies and Political Orders in Transition
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-82116-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-82115-9Published: 15 September 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-82118-0Published: 16 September 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-82116-6Published: 14 September 2021
Series ISSN: 2511-2201
Series E-ISSN: 2511-221X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 208
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 15 illustrations in colour
Topics: Comparative Politics, Energy Policy, Economics and Management, European Politics, Pollution, general, Environmental Policy, Governance and Government