Environmental Management in the Soviet Union
Environmental problems and their management were one of the main areas of concern for the Soviet government in the late 1980s, just before its dissolution. In this original study, first published in 1991, barely preceding the Soviet Union's collapse, Professor Philip Pryde examines the pervasive nature of biosphere disruption and environmental contaminants in the country and the extent to which they represented a threat to the Soviet populace and its resource base. This book was the first comprehensive study of Soviet environmental issues and was written by an international specialist on Soviet environmental problems and management. It was first published at a time when the Western world was increasingly following developments in the Soviet Union with interest and environmental protection had become one of the primary topics of glasnost. Environmental Management in the Soviet Union will therefore be essential reading for environmental historians and for students and specialists of conservation and environmental management with a special interest in the Soviet Union.
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Environmental Management in the Soviet Union
Environmental problems and their management were one of the main areas of concern for the Soviet government in the late 1980s, just before its dissolution. In this original study, first published in 1991, barely preceding the Soviet Union's collapse, Professor Philip Pryde examines the pervasive nature of biosphere disruption and environmental contaminants in the country and the extent to which they represented a threat to the Soviet populace and its resource base. This book was the first comprehensive study of Soviet environmental issues and was written by an international specialist on Soviet environmental problems and management. It was first published at a time when the Western world was increasingly following developments in the Soviet Union with interest and environmental protection had become one of the primary topics of glasnost. Environmental Management in the Soviet Union will therefore be essential reading for environmental historians and for students and specialists of conservation and environmental management with a special interest in the Soviet Union.
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Environmental Management in the Soviet Union

Environmental Management in the Soviet Union

by Philip Rust Pryde
Environmental Management in the Soviet Union

Environmental Management in the Soviet Union

by Philip Rust Pryde

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Environmental problems and their management were one of the main areas of concern for the Soviet government in the late 1980s, just before its dissolution. In this original study, first published in 1991, barely preceding the Soviet Union's collapse, Professor Philip Pryde examines the pervasive nature of biosphere disruption and environmental contaminants in the country and the extent to which they represented a threat to the Soviet populace and its resource base. This book was the first comprehensive study of Soviet environmental issues and was written by an international specialist on Soviet environmental problems and management. It was first published at a time when the Western world was increasingly following developments in the Soviet Union with interest and environmental protection had become one of the primary topics of glasnost. Environmental Management in the Soviet Union will therefore be essential reading for environmental historians and for students and specialists of conservation and environmental management with a special interest in the Soviet Union.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780521409056
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 07/26/1991
Series: Cambridge Russian Paperbacks , #4
Pages: 336
Product dimensions: 6.18(w) x 9.29(h) x 0.91(d)

Table of Contents

List of illustrations; List of tables; Foreword by Zeev Wolfson; Preface; 1. Introduction: the state of the Soviet environment in the 1990s; 2. Managing the Soviet atmosphere; 3. The Chernobyl legacy: whither nuclear energy?; 4. Renewable energy resources; 5. The quest for clean water; 6. Controlling toxic and urban wastes; 7. Managing Soviet forest resources; 8. Soviet nature reserves; 9. National parks: a new feature on the Soviet landscape; 10. Managing wildlife and endangered species; 11. Protecting the land; 12. The water crisis in Soviet Central Asia; 13. Assessing the environmental impacts of development; 14. Glasnost and public environmental activism; 15. International environmental cooperation; 16. The future environment of the Soviet Union; References; Index.
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