Local Environmental Regulation in Post Socialism A Hungarian Case Study

Local Environmental Regulation in Post Socialism  A Hungarian Case Study
Author: Chris G. Pickvance
Publsiher: Routledge
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2017-11-22
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9781351769501

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This title was first published in 2003. This text examines Hungarian local environmental regulation in practice rather than what should happen according to national legislation. The book is based on interviews with officials, regulators, firm managers and environmental groups in four localities in Hungary and on a national survey of local government officials. Numerous quotations from interviews are included. It is shown that the local social and economic context influences the behaviour of both local governments and regional environmental inspectorates. Firms' responsiveness to regulation is studied and it is shown that while some firms are ready to pay moderate environmental fines others are afraid of even symbolic fines. The findings are set within debates in the international literature on environmental regulation. It is shown that there are convergences with patterns reported in developed capitalist societies, but that certain legacies from state socialism are compatible with these patterns.

The Urban Mosaic of Post Socialist Europe

The Urban Mosaic of Post Socialist Europe
Author: Sasha Tsenkova,Zorica Nedovic-Budic
Publsiher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 395
Release: 2006-12-02
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9783790817270

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This book explores urban dynamics in Europe fifteen years after the fall of communism. The ‘urban mosaic’ of the title expresses the complexity and diversity of the processes and spatial outcomes in post-socialist cities. Emerging urban phenomena are illustrated with case studies, focusing on historical themes, cultural issues and the socialist legacy. Among the cities analyzed are Kazan, St. Petersburg, Moscow, Warsaw, Prague, Komarno, Budapest, Belgrade, Bucharest, Sofia and Tirana.

Green Activism in Post Socialist Europe and the Former Soviet Union

Green Activism in Post Socialist Europe and the Former Soviet Union
Author: Adam Fagan,JoAnn Carmin
Publsiher: Routledge
Total Pages: 175
Release: 2014-06-11
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9781317979678

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Green activism played a critical role in the downfall of Soviet-style communism in Eastern Europe at the end of the 1980s. After the revolutions, environmentalists were expected to exert influence within the new democracies and to form the bedrock of the new civil societies that were predicted to flourish across the region; the prospect of EU membership provided activist networks with even greater optimism about their political opportunities. Two decades later what has been the impact of political and economic liberalisation on environmental campaigners and policy advocates? Has access to elites increased with democratisation and Europeanization? To what extent does the realm of environmental politics, within individual states and across the region, continue to represent an optic on change and continuity? Through country case-studies and comparative analysis of national movements, this edited volume addresses each of these questions and provides a different perspective of green politics in the region. This book was previously published as a special issue of Environmental Politics.

Trans national Issues Local Concerns and Meanings of Post socialism

Trans national Issues  Local Concerns and Meanings of Post socialism
Author: Moya Flynn,Rebecca Kay,Jonathan D. Oldfield
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2008
Genre: History
ISBN: STANFORD:36105131734191

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This volume examines societal change in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and Russia in a purposeful movement away from the generalized debated associated with 'transition' theory and a simultaneous engagement with the complexities of everyday life throughout the region at the local level. In addition to addressing the problematic nature of a discursive east-west divide, Trans-National Issues, Local Concerns and Meanings of Post-Socialism brings together a range of academics and practitioners working on specific locally-situated concerns including drug use, HIV/AIDS, health, identity, and welfare as well as issues related to minority ethnic groups. While drawing attention to the salience of a common socialist past, these empirically-rich chapters highlight the importance of moving beyond simplistic east-west analytical framework in order to acknowledge the multifaceted societal realties evident with the former socialist countries of CEE and Russia.

Politics and the Environment in Eastern Europe

Politics and the Environment in Eastern Europe
Author: Eszter Krasznai Kovacs
Publsiher: Open Book Publishers
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2021-07-28
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 9781800641358

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Europe remains divided between east and west, with differences caused and worsened by uneven economic and political development. Amid these divisions, the environment has become a key battleground. The condition and sustainability of environmental resources are interlinked with systems of governance and power, from local to EU levels. Key challenges in the eastern European region today include increasingly authoritarian forms of government that threaten the operations and very existence of civil society groups; the importation of locally-contested conservation and environmental programmes that were designed elsewhere; and a resurgence in cultural nationalism that prescribes and normalises exclusionary nation-building myths. This volume draws together essays by early-career academic researchers from across eastern Europe. Engaging with the critical tools of political ecology, its contributors provide a hitherto overlooked perspective on the current fate and reception of ‘environmentalism’ in the region. It asks how emergent forms of environmentalism have been received, how these movements and perspectives have redefined landscapes, and what the subtler effects of new regulatory regimes on communities and environment-dependent livelihoods have been. Arranged in three sections, with case studies from Czechia, Hungary, Lithuania, Poland, Romania and Serbia, this collection develops anthropological views on the processes and consequences of the politicisation of the environment. It is valuable reading for human geographers, social and cultural historians, political ecologists, social movement and government scholars, political scientists, and specialists on Europe and European Union politics.

Social Policy

Social Policy
Author: John Baldock,Nick Manning,Sarah Vickerstaff
Publsiher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 770
Release: 2007-03
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780199284979

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Designed for use by undergraduates on social policy, social work and sociology courses and by students on vocational training courses (including postgraduate), this textbook covers all the main topics of social policy.

State and Society in Post Socialist Economies

State and Society in Post Socialist Economies
Author: J. Pickles
Publsiher: Springer
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2008-01-17
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780230590922

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State and Society in Post-Socialist Economies focuses on the reform economies of post-socialist Europe. It looks at how various projects of communism that emerged in have been and are still being dismantled and recomposed by alternative visions, institutions and practices of capitalist market economies and democratic polities.

Liberation Ecologies

Liberation Ecologies
Author: Richard Peet,Michael Watts
Publsiher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 468
Release: 2004
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0415312361

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Liberation Ecologies elaborates a political-economic explanation of environmental crisis, drawing from the most recent advances in social theory.