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Environment and Sustainable Development in the New Central Europe

Häftad, Engelska, 2008

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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. Zbigniew Bochniarz, is affiliated to the Evans School of Public Affairs at the University of Washington in Seattle. He spent over twenty years at the University of Minnesota?s Humphrey Institute where he founded a Center for Nations in Transition. The Center became an international leader in delivering foreign assistance for Central and Eastern Europe. His work focuses on economic, environmental, and social aspects of sustainability of transforming economies. He is the author, co-author and/or editor of over 100 publications. Gary B. Cohen, has been director of the Center for Austrian Studies and professor of history at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, since 2001. He teaches and publishes on modern Central European social and political history. He is the author of numerous articles and essays as well as two books, The Politics of Ethnic Survival: Germans in Prague, 1861-1914 (first edition, Princeton Univ. Press,1981; rev. 2nd ed., Purdue Univ.Press, 2005) and Education and Middle-Class Society in Imperial Austria, 1848-1918 (Purdue Univ. Press, 1996).

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Utgivningsdatum2008-01-02
Mått152 x 229 x 14 mm
Vikt379 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieAustrian Habsburg Studies
Antal sidor280
FörlagBerghahn Books
ISBN9781845455033

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Zbigniew Bochniarz, has been affiliated with the H. H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota since 1986. In 1994, he founded there the Center for Nations in Transition, which has become an international leader in designing and delivering foreign assistance programs for Central and Eastern Europe in areas of educational, environmental and institutional reforms for sustainable development. His teaching and research focus on the economic, environmental and social aspects of sustainability within the transformation processes in post-communist countries. He is the author, co-author or editor of over one hundred books and other publications on these topics.Gary B. Cohen, has been director of the Center for Austrian Studies and professor of history at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, since 2001. He teaches and publishes on modern Central European social and political history. He is the author of numerous articles and essays as well as two books, The Politics of Ethnic Survival: Germans in Prague, 1861-1914 (first edition, Princeton Univ. Press,1981; rev. 2nd ed., Purdue Univ. Press, 2005) and Education and Middle-Class Society in Imperial Austria, 1848-1918 (Purdue Univ. Press, 1996).

List of Figures and TablesAcknowledgementsNotes on ContributorsIntroduction: Legacies, Challenges, and New BeginningsZbigniew Bochniarz and Gary B. CohenChapter 1. From Communism to Climate Change: The Sustainability Challenge and Lessons from Central EuropeRobert WilkinsonPart I: The Environment as Policy PriorityChapter 2. Assessing Sustainability of the Transition in Central European Countries: A Comparative AnalysisSandra O. Archibald and Zbigniew BochniarzChapter 3. Sustainability and EU Accession: Capacity Development and Environmental Reform in Central and Eastern EuropeStacy D. VanDeveer and JoAnn CarminChapter 4. Sustainability of Clusters and Regions at Austria’s Accession EdgeEdward M. BergmanPart II: The Economics of Sustainable DevelopmentChapter 5. Greenhouse Gases Emissions Trading in the Czech RepublicJirina Jilková and Tomás ChmelíkChapter 6. Ecological Reform in the Tax System in PolandOlga Kiuila and Jerzy S´leszynskiPart III: Water Policies and InstitutionsChapter 7. The Czech Republic: From Environmental Crisis to SustainabilityVáclav MezrickyChapter 8. The Tisza/Tisa Transboundary Environmental Disaster: An Opportunity for Institutional LearningEszter Gulácsy, László Pintér, and Jim PerryChapter 9. Austria and the EU Water Framework DirectiveWilhelm R. VogelChapter 10. The Western Bug River: UNECE Pilot ProjectJames B. Dalton, Jr.Chapter 11. Wastewater Treatment in the Postcommunist Danube River BasinIgor BodíkPart IV: Agriculture and Rural DevelopmentChapter 12. “Thinking Unlike a Mountain”: Environment, Agriculture, and Sustainability in the CarpathiansAnthony J. AmatoChapter 13. New Approaches to Sustainable Community Development in Rural SlovakiaSlavomíra MacákováChapter 14. Sustainable Development in Moravia: An Interpretation of the Role of the Small-Town Sector in Transitional Socioeconomic EvolutionAntonín Vaishar and Bryn Greer-WoottenChapter 15. Building Local Sustainability in Hungary: Cross-Generational Education and Community Participation in the Dörögd BasinJudit VásárhelyiSelect BibliographyIndex