Dilemmas of Transition: The Environment, Democracy and Economic Reform in East Central Europe

by Baker,Susan

• ISBN13: 9780714647647
• ISBN10: 0714647640
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-09-30
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Civil society is one of the most talked about, but difficult concepts to define. Yet it has captured the imagination of intellectuals and political activists alike. In the post-cold war era there has been a tremendous optimism about the re-emergence of civil society in many countries. However, the promises of change have not always borne fruit. This volume examines the idea of civil society in its historical and contemporary dimensions. As a collection, it provides a clear, comprehensive and critical mapping of the idea, the burden of expectation that it has carried, and the intellectual and political dimensions that surround it. The major themes covered include the concept of civil society itself, its relation to the state on the one hand and political economy on the other, and the violence of civil society as well as the possibilities it provides for resistance to injustice.

Table of Contents

Dilemmas of Transition: The Environment, Democracy and Economic Reform in East Central Europe--An Introduction	1	(28)
Susan Baker
Petr Jehlicka
PART I: ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY AND THE TRANSITION PROCESS IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE	29	(64)
Geopolitics and the Environment in Eastern Europe	29	(24)
Michael Waller
Financing Environmental Policy in East Central Europe	53	(16)
Ans Kolk
Ewout van der Weij
Environmental Movement and Social Change in the Transition Countries	69	(24)
Barbara Jancar-Webster
PART II: COUNTRY STUDIES	93	(114)
Hungary: Political Transformation and Environmental Challenge	93	(20)
Laurence J. O'Toole, Jr.
Kenneth Hanf
Sustainable Development in the Czech Republic: A Doomed Process?	113	(16)
Adam Fagin
Petr Jehlicka
Rejecting Green Velvet: Transition, Environment and Nationalism in Slovakia	129	(16)
Juraj Podoba
Environmental Policy in Poland	145	(17)
Frances Millard
Environmental Action during Romania's Early Transition Years	162	(21)
Simina Dragomirescu
Cristina Muica
David Turnock
Bulgaria: Managing the Environment in an Unstable Transition	183	(24)
Susan Baker
Bernd Baumgartl
Notes on Contributors	207	(4)
Index	211