Environmental Transitions: Transformation and Ecological Defense in Central and Eastern Europe

Table of contents

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• Title Page iii
• Contents vii
• Plates ix
• Figures xi
• Maps xiii
• Tables xiv
• Preface xvii
• Part I - Introduction 1
• 1 - The Political Economy of Environmental Transitions 3
• 2 - Theorizing Social and Environmental Change 19
• Part II - Nature, Risk and the Legacies of State Socialism 37
• 3 - Environmental Quality in Central and Eastern Europe 39
• 4 - Nature, Society and Extensive Industrialization 84
• 5 - Social and Environmental Regulation Under State Socialism 105
• 6 - Constructing Risk 127
• Part III - Post-Communist Transformations and the Environment 157

• Title Page iii
• Contents vii
• Plates ix
• Figures xi
• Maps xiii
• Tables xiv
• Preface xvii
• Part I - Introduction 1
• 1 - The Political Economy of Environmental Transitions 3
• 2 - Theorizing Social and Environmental Change 19
• Part II - Nature, Risk and the Legacies of State Socialism 37
• 3 - Environmental Quality in Central and Eastern Europe 39
• 4 - Nature, Society and Extensive Industrialization 84
• 5 - Social and Environmental Regulation Under State Socialism 105
• 6 - Constructing Risk 127
• Part III - Post-Communist Transformations and the Environment 157
• 7 - Post-Communist Reform and the Democratization of Nature 159
• 8 - Environmental Legislation and Policy 194
• 9 - State, Environment and Information in Post-Communist Transformations 216
• 10 - Environmental Effects of Post-Communist Transformations 242
• Part IV - Nature in Post-Communist Societies 287
• 11 - Conclusion 289
• Notes 301
• Bibliography 320
• Index 353