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Author: Murray Feshbach
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 1992-05-11
Total Pages: 408
ISBN-13: 9780465016648
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe authors supply the first authoritative measure of the costs of the impending Soviet health situation and its political consequences, as they tell a grim tale of a failed medical system, poisoned cities, land left unfit for agriculture, and a people too weak to meet the nation's industrial and military needs.
Author: Murray Feshbach
Publisher: Aurum Press Limited
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 376
ISBN-13: 9781854102300
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA dissection of the Soviet Union's legacy of health and environmental disaster, this book examines a former country of 103 cities - home to 70 million people - where the air is unfit to breathe and pollution fouls 75 percent of the water.
Author: Gary E. McCuen
Publisher:
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 134
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Paul Josephson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2013-04-30
Total Pages: 351
ISBN-13: 0521869587
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis environmental history of the former Soviet Union explores the impact that state economic development programs had on the environment.
Author: Boris Komarov
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 1980
Total Pages: 168
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKBroad indictment of the environmental practices and policies of the Soviet Union.
Author: John Massey Stewart
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1992-05-07
Total Pages: 266
ISBN-13: 0521414180
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book, originally published in 1992, describes the Soviet environment at its crisis point in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Beolorussia and the Ukraine had, as a result of the Chernobyl accident, been declared ecological disaster zones and across the country as a whole as many as 20 per cent of the population lived in environmental danger areas and another 35-40 per cent in unsatisfactory conditions. According to a Supreme Soviet Environment Committee report of 1989, 80% of all illness in the USSR related either directly or indirectly to environmental problems. In this book, leading specialists from both the West and the Soviet Union present a comprehensive analysis of these problems. The contributors examine the aftermath of Chernobyl, the catastrophic causes and effects of the Aral Sea's shrinkage, the environmental issues and public unrest. The depth of analysis in this volume together with the breadth of topics addressed will ensure that it is read by students and specialists of the Soviet Union and environmental issues, as well as by all government officials, journalists and industrialists with an interest in the Soviet environment.
Author: Philip R. Pryde
Publisher: CUP Archive
Published: 1991-07-26
Total Pages: 342
ISBN-13: 9780521409056
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this study of Soviet environmental problems and their management, the author examines the pervasive nature of biosphere disruption and environmental contaminants in the country. He discusses the extent to which they are damaging the Soviet populace and the resource base upon which it depends.
Author: Julian Agyeman
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 0262512335
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn examination of the awareness of environmental and social justice issues in the former Soviet republics--from the Western-style democracies of the Baltic region to the totalitarian regimes of Central Asia--and the resulting activism in those states. The legacy of environmental catastrophe in the states of the former Soviet Union includes desertification, pollution, and the toxic aftermath of industrial accidents, the most notorious of which was the Chernobyl disaster of 1986. This book examines the development of environmental activism in Russia and the former Soviet republics in response to these problems and its effect on policy and planning. It also shows that because of increasing economic, ethnic, and social inequality in the former Soviet states, debates over environmental justice are beginning to come to the fore. The book explores the varying environmental, social, political, and economic circumstances of these countries--which range from the Western-style democracies of the Baltic states to the totalitarian regimes of Central Asia--and how they affect the ecological, environmental, and public health. Among the topics covered are environmentalism in Russia (including the progressive nature of its laws on environmental protection, which are undermined by overburdened and underpaid law enforcement); the effect of oil wealth on Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan; the role of nationalism in Latvian environmentalism; the struggle of Russia's indigenous peoples for environmental justice; public participation in Estonia's environmental movement; and lack of access to natural capital in Tajikistan. Environmental Justice and Sustainability in the Former Soviet Union makes clear that although fragile transition economies, varying degrees of democratization, and a focus on national security can stymie progress toward "just sustainability," the diverse states of the former Soviet Union are making some progress toward "green" and environmental justice issues separately.
Author: Charles E. Ziegler
Publisher: Univ of Massachusetts Press
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 195
ISBN-13: 9780870237294
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn interesting and very readable overview first published (hardcover) in 1987. The paperback edition includes a new introduction by the author (political science, U. of Louisville) bringing it up to date. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
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Published: 1993-01
Total Pages: 56
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is the premier public resource on scientific and technological developments that impact global security. Founded by Manhattan Project Scientists, the Bulletin's iconic "Doomsday Clock" stimulates solutions for a safer world.
