Environmental Security and Quality after Communism: Eastern Europe and the Soviet Successor States

Abstract

Part 1 The environment as a security problem in the post-communist world: the concept of environmental security in the post-communist world, Leigh Sarty opportunities in de-commissioning weapon systems and control of nuclear material, David Crenna and Tariq Rauf military activity and environmental security - the case of the Arctic, Peter Gizewski the Russian north and environmental security, Raphael Vartanov. Part 2 Environmental security and the energy sector: the post-Soviet nuclear-power programme, David Marples energy and the environment in post-communist Europe, John M. Kramer. Part 3 Regional and intra-regional environmental security in the post-Soviet world: intra-regional environmental security in east-central Europe, Barbara Jancar-Webster building bureaucratic capacity in Russia - federal and regional responses to the environmental challenge, D.J. Peterson citizen participation and environmental security in Russia, Lisa Van Buren Central Asia - how to pick up the pieces, James Critchlow the degradation and protection of the environment in Latvia, Juris Dreifelds.