Routledge
2000

   Environmental Transitions is a detailed and comprehensive account of the environmental changes in Central and Eastern Europe, both under state soci alism and during the period of transition to capitalism. The change in politics in the late 1980s and early 1990s allowed an opportunity for a rapid environmental clean up, in an area once considered one of the most environmentally devastated regions on e arth. The book illustrates how transformations after 1989 have brought major environmental improvements, as well as new environmental problems. It shows how environmental policy, economic change and popular support for environmental movements have specifi c and changing geographies associated with them.
   Environmental Transitions addresses a large number of topics, including the historical geographical analysis of the environmental change, health impacts of environmental degradation, the role of environmental i ssues during the anti-communist revolutions, legislative reform and the effects of transition on environmental quality after 1989.
   Environmental Transitions contains detailed case studies from the region, which illustrate the complexity of environmental issues and their intimate relationship with political and economic realities. It gives theoretically informed ideas for understanding environmental change in the context of the political economy of state socialsim and post-communist transformations, drawing on a wide body of literature from West, Central and Eastern Europe.