This volume explores the impact of democratization and marketization on the environment in East Central Europe.

This volume explores the impact of the twin process of democratisation and marketisation on the environment in East Central Europe. Three environmental matters are investigated: how the twin processes of change have effected (1) the physical environment (2) the expression of environmental interest and (3) the effectiveness of environmental management policies. The book also examines the role of the European Union because of the influence it exercises on environmental policy in East Central Europe. The book finds that political and economic instability and external pressures have displaced environmental considerations from central stage. This has meant a failure within East Central Europe to realise a more far-reaching and more sustainable approach towards the management of transition.

Dilemmas of transition - the environment, democracy and economic reform in East Central Europe - an introduction, Susan
Baker, Petr Jehlicka. Part 1 Environmental policy and the transition process in Central and Eastern Europe: geopolitics
and the environment in Eastern Europe, Michael Waller
financing environmental policy in East Central Europe, Ans Kolk,
Ewout van de Weij
environmental movement and social change
in the transition countries, Barbara Jancar-Webster. Part 2
Country studies: Hungary - political transformation and environmental challenge, Laurence J. O'Toole, Jr.
Kenneth Hanf
sustainable development in the Czech Republic - a doomed process? Adam Fagin, Petr Jehlicka
rejecting green velvet - transition, environment and nationalism in Slovakia, Jurj Podoba
environmental policy in Poland, Frances Millard
environmental action during Romania's early transition years, Simina Dragomirescu et al
Bulgaria - managing the environment in an unstable transition, Susan Baker, Bernd Baumgartl.