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Author: D. J. Peterson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-05-31
Total Pages: 318
ISBN-13: 9780367214937
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe dramatic revelations of environmental catastrophe in the Soviet Union made during the late 1980s and early 1990s were a driving force behind reform in, and later the demise of the communist party-state. But while the Union no longer exists, the independent republics confront the same dilemmas that plagued the Soviet state: Will the goal of econ
Author: Andy Bruno
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2016-04-11
Total Pages: 311
ISBN-13: 110714471X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis in-depth exploration of five industries in the Kola Peninsula examines Soviet power and its interaction with the natural world.
Author: Nicholas Breyfogle
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: 2018-11-06
Total Pages: 416
ISBN-13: 0822986337
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThrough a series of essays, Eurasian Environments prompts us to rethink our understanding of tsarist and Soviet history by placing the human experience within the larger environmental context of flora, fauna, geology, and climate. This book is a broad look at the environmental history of Eurasia, specifically examining steppe environments, hydraulic engineering, soil and forestry, water pollution, fishing, and the interaction of the environment and disease vectors. Throughout, the authors place the history of Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union in a trans-chronological, comparative context, seamlessly linking the local and the global. The chapters are rooted in the ecological and geological specificities of place and community while unveiling the broad patterns of human-nature relationships across the planet. Eurasian Environments brings together an international group scholars working on issues of tsarist/Soviet environmental history in an effort to showcase the wave of fascinating and field-changing research currently being written.
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: Jonathan D. Oldfield
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2021
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9781003158615
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"This book argues that the Soviet Union was a highly influential actor in furthering understandings of society-nature interaction on the international stage and played a key role in helping to shape, conceptualize and assess the relationship between humankind and the Earth system. It considers how humankind's capacity to affect physical and biological systems at a global scale was acknowledged and studied by Soviet scientists, discusses how the interaction between Soviet and Western scientists stimulated the development of new technologies and insights, which simultaneously facilitated a more profound understanding of the Earth's physical and biological systems, and explores how Soviet scientists drew upon pre-revolutionary intellectual traditions in order to make sense of society-nature interaction and did so in collaboration with a range of international initiatives. Overall, the book provides a deep analysis of how Soviet scientists conceptualized society-nature interaction and influenced the understanding of global physical and biological systems. Furthermore, it is argued that this intellectual legacy remains of importance today with respect to the activities of Russian science and contemporary global environmental challenges"--
Author: 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: William Wheeler
Publisher:
Published: 2021
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781800080379
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEnvironment and Post-Soviet Transformation in Kazakhstan's Aral Sea Region explores how the sea's retreat and partial return has impacted the lives of people living in the area.
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: D. J. Peterson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-03-15
Total Pages: 275
ISBN-13: 1000010570
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe dramatic revelations of environmental catastrophe in the Soviet Union made during the late 1980s and early 1990s were a driving force behind reform in, and later the demise of the communist party-state. But while the Union no longer exists, the independent republics confront the same dilemmas that plagued the Soviet state: Will the goal of econ
Author: Boris Komarov
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 1980
Total Pages: 168
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBroad indictment of the environmental practices and policies of the Soviet Union.
