Environmental Management in the Soviet Union - Brossura

Pryde, Philip

 
9780521409056: Environmental Management in the Soviet Union

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This book was the first comprehensive study of Soviet environmental issues.

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Descrizione del libro

This book was the first comprehensive study of Soviet environmental issues and was written by an international specialist on Soviet environmental problems and management. Professor Philip Pryde examines the pervasive nature of biosphere disruption and environmental contaminants in the country and the extent to which they represented a threat to the Soviet populace and its resource base.

Contenuti

List of illustrations; List of tables; Foreword by Zeev Wolfson; Preface; 1. Introduction: the state of the Soviet environment in the 1990s; 2. Managing the Soviet atmosphere; 3. The Chernobyl legacy: whither nuclear energy?; 4. Renewable energy resources; 5. The quest for clean water; 6. Controlling toxic and urban wastes; 7. Managing Soviet forest resources; 8. Soviet nature reserves; 9. National parks: a new feature on the Soviet landscape; 10. Managing wildlife and endangered species; 11. Protecting the land; 12. The water crisis in Soviet Central Asia; 13. Assessing the environmental impacts of development; 14. Glasnost and public environmental activism; 15. International environmental cooperation; 16. The future environment of the Soviet Union; References; Index.

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9780521360791: Environmental Management in the Soviet Union

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ISBN 10:  052136079X ISBN 13:  9780521360791
Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 1991
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