Nature and the Iron Curtain : Environmental Policy and Social Movements in Communist and Capitalist Countries, 1945-1990 /

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In Nature and the Iron Curtain, the authors contrast communist and capitalist countries with respect to their environmental politics in the context of the Cold War. Its chapters draw from archives across Europe and the U.S. to present new perspectives on the origins and evolution of modern environme...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: McNeill, John Robert (Editor ), Kirchhof, Astrid Mignon (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2019
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Environmentalism
Environmental policy.
Cold War > Social aspects.
Cold War > Environmental aspects.
Western countries > Environmental conditions > 20th century.
Communist countries > Environmental conditions > 20th century.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : environmentalism, environmental policy, capitalism, and communism / Astrid Mignon Kirchhof and J.R. McNeill
  • Building a Soviet eco-power while looking at the capitalist world the rise of technocratic environmentalism in Russian water controversies, 1957-1989 / Laurent Coumel
  • Water pollution and protection in the Lithuanian Soviet Republic / Anolda Cetkauskaite and Simo Laakkonen
  • The fallout of Chernobyl : the emergence of an environmental movement in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic / Tetiana Perga
  • Keeping the air clean? : environmental policy, utility companies, and social movements in West Germany since the 1970s / Hendrik Ehrhardt
  • From anti-nuke to ökopax : 1970s anti-reactor activism and the emergence of West Germany's mass movement for peace / Stephen Milder
  • An unguided boom : environmental policies of Cold War Italy / Wilko Graf von Hardenberg
  • Nuclear-free Montana : grassroots environmentalism and Montana's antinuclear initiatives / Brian James Leech
  • Building a socialist environment : Czechoslovak environmental policy from the 1960s to the 1980s / Eagle Glassheim
  • Protesting pollution : environmental activism in East Germany and Poland, 1980-1990 / Julia E. Ault
  • About environmental policy in socialist Yugoslavia / Hrvoje Petrić
  • "It makes no sense to work against nature" : Cold War modernization in West German agriculture / Scott Moranda
  • An American miracle in the desert : environmental crisis and nuclear-powered desalination in the Middle East / Jacob Darwin Hamblin
  • East Germany's fight for recognition as a sovereign state : environmental diplomacy as strategy in Cold War politics / Astrid Mignon Kirchhof.

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