Along Ukraine's River

Roman Adrian Cybriwsky is senior professor of Geography and Urban Studies. He has been at Temple University since 1972, and for many years was dean at the university’s campus in Tokyo, Japan. He is the author of Kyiv, Ukraine: The City of Domes and Demons from the Collapse of Socialism to the Mass Uprising of 2013–2014 (Amsterdam University Press, 2014).

• List of IllustrationsPrefaceChapter 1: A National RiverChapter 2: A Work of Nature and the Works of MenChapter 3: A Winding Course through HistoryChapter 4: Soviet River: From DniproHES to ChornobylChapter 5: The River’s HealthChapter 6: Kyiv—Whose Ukraine?Chapter 7: Around the Kremenchuk SeaChapter 8: At the Great Bend of the DniproChapter 9: Zaporizhia and Dnipro (City)—Ukraine ReclaimedChapter 10: Down the Lower CourseChapter 11: Some Thoughts About UkraineBibliographyIndex

"Cybriwsky’s book is a passionate plea for a sound environmental policy, ecological education, and development of tourism on and around the river, which is so 'wonderfully positioned to show off the country’s scenery, history, culture, and cities.' He is confident that 'Ukraine’s future is tied closely to the future of Ukraine’s River' and that Ukraine’s professed European course cannot be achieved without adopting European standards of air and water quality, recycling, pollution control, and responsible ecological behavior. Considering both the practical and symbolic significance of the Dnipro for Ukraine and Ukrainians, restoring the river, the author argues, 'should become a national crusade.' The book is really a pioneer work on the topic, and can be praised as informative, competent, well-structured, and wellstocked with apt facts and interpretations of rather complex phenomena and developments. It could serve as a valuable reference book or even a guidebook. The author, a professor of geography and urban studies at Temple University, is well aware of the complexity of the genre that he has chosen, and of the high standards established by some of the authors he acknowledges in the preface."