The Environment and Sustainable Development in the New Central Europe / / ed. by Gary B. Cohen, Zbigniew Bochniarz.

With the enlargement of the European Union, the accession countries are coming under pressure to develop and meet EU standards for environmental protection and sustainable development. In this ongoing process, global economic liberalization, regulatory policy, conservation, and lifestyle issues are...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2006]
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Year of Publication:2006
Language:English
Series:Austrian and Habsburg Studies ; 7
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Physical Description:1 online resource (280 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • LIST OF FIGURES AND TABLES
  • ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  • NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
  • Introduction: Legacies, Challenges, and New Beginnings
  • 1. From Communism to Climate Change: The Sustainability Challenge and Lessons from Central Europe
  • Part One THE ENVIRONMENT AS POLICY PRIORITY
  • 2. Assessing Sustainability of the Transition in Central European Countries: A Comparative Analysis
  • 3. Sustainability and EU Accession: Capacity Development and Environmental Reform in Central and Eastern Europe
  • 4. Sustainability of Clusters and Regions at Austria’s Accession Edge
  • Part Two: The Economics of Sustainable Development
  • 5. Greenhouse Gases Emissions Trading in the Czech Republic
  • 6. Ecological Reform in the Tax System in Poland
  • Part Three: Water Policies and Institutions
  • 7. The Czech Republic: From Environmental Crisis to Sustainability
  • 8. The Tisza/Tisa Transboundary Environmental Disaster: An Opportunity for Institutional Learning
  • 9. Austria and the EU Water Framework Directive
  • 10. The Western Bug River: UNECE Pilot Project
  • 11. Wastewater Treatment in the Postcommunist Danube River Basin
  • Part Four: Agriculture and Rural Development
  • 12. “Thinking Unlike a Mountain”: Environment, Agriculture, and Sustainability in the Carpathians
  • 13. New Approaches to Sustainable Community Development in Rural Slovakia
  • 14. Sustainable Development in Moravia: An Interpretation of the Role of the Small-Town Sector in Transitional Socioeconomic Evolution
  • 15. Building Local Sustainability in Hungary: Cross-Generational Education and Community Participation in the Dörögd Basin
  • SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX