Author: Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe (Budapest)
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Published: 1994
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Petr Pavlínek
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2002-09-26
Total Pages: 394
ISBN-13: 1134715579
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Environmental Transitions is a detailed and comprehensive account of the environmental changes in Central and Eastern Europe, both under state socialism and during the period of transition to capitalism. The change in politics in the late 1980s and early 1990s allowed an opportunity for a rapid environmental clean up, in an area once considered one of the most environmentally devastated regions on earth. The book illustrates how transformations after 1989 have brought major environmental improvements, as well as new environmental problems. It shows how environmental policy, economic change and popular support for environmental movements, have specific and changing geographies associated with them. Environmental Transitions addresses a large number of topics, including the historical geographical analysis of the environmental change, health impacts of environmental degradation, the role of environmental issues during the anti-communist revolutions, legislative reform and the effects of transition on environmental quality after 1989. Environmental Transitions contains detailed case studies from the region, which illustrate the complexity of environmental issues and their intimate relationship with political and economic realities. It gives theoretically informed ideas for understanding environmental change in the context of the political economy of state socialism and post-communist transformations, drawing on a wide body of literature from West, Central and Eastern Europe.
Author: Clyde Hertzman
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Published: 1995-01-01
Total Pages: 136
ISBN-13: 9780821331736
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This report draws on lessons learned in urban development lending to build a conceptual framework for improving the delivery of services. This framework looks beyond local governments alone as the cause of poor performance and points toward reforming the incentives they face. The report examines key issues in service delivery, such as the need to clarify the division of functional responsibilities between levels of government, to make revenue sources correspond to functional responsibilities, and to establish a governmental system that balances central regulation with local incentives for responding to constituents. The book seeks to begin a global dialog on ways of improving urban service delivery and to serve as a catalyst for further learning from the rich experience of reform underway in many developing countries. The issues addressed in the report especially pertain to countries undertaking decentralization. Also available: French (ISBN 0-8213-3314-3) Stock No. 13314; Spanish (ISBN 0-8213-3315) Stock No. 13315.
Author: Nickolai B. Denisov
Publisher: Incumbent
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 134
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Petr Pavlínek
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 388
ISBN-13: 9780415162692
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Environmental Transitionsis a detailed and comprehensive account of the environmental changes in Central and Eastern Europe, both during and after state socialism. The book illustrates how transformations after 1989 have brought major environmental improvements, as well as new environmental problems.Environmental Transitionscontains detailed case studies from the region including: * an historical-geographical analysis of the environmental change L * health impacts of environmental degradation * the role of environmental issues during the anti-communist revolutions * legislative reform * the effects of transition on environmental quality after 1989
Author: Zbigniew Bochniarz
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2006-06-01
Total Pages: 278
ISBN-13: 0857457160
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →With the enlargement of the European Union, the accession countries are coming under pressure to develop and meet EU standards for environmental protection and sustainable development. In this ongoing process, global economic liberalization, regulatory policy, conservation, and lifestyle issues are all involved, and creative solutions will have to be found. Historians, geographers, economists, ecologists, business management experts, public policy specialists, and community organizers have come together in this volume and examine, for the first time, environmental issues ranging from national and regional policy and macroeconomics to local studies in community regeneration. The evidence suggests that, far from being mere passive recipients of instruction and assistance from outside, the people of Central and East Central Europe have been engaged actively in working out solutions to these problems. Several promising cases illustrate opportunities to overcome crisis situations and offer examples of good practices, while others pose warnings. The experiences of these countries in wrestling with issues of sustainability continue to be of importance to policy development within the EU and may serve also as examples for both developed and developing countries worldwide.