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Nature and the Iron Curtain : environmental policy and social movements in Communist and capitalist countries, 1945-1990 / edited by Astrid Mignon Kirchhof and J.R. McNeill.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, (c)2019.Description: 1 online resource (vi, 312 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780822986485
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • D840 .N388 2019
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
Contents:
Astrid Mignon Kirchhof and J. R. McNeill; PART I. Communist and Capitalist Systems Revisited: A Comparison of Their Environmental Politics; 1. Building a Soviet Eco-Power while Looking at the Capitalist World: The Rise of Technocratic Environmentalism in Russian Water Controversies, 1957-1989 / Laurent Coumel; 2. Water Pollution and Protection in the Lithuanian Soviet Republic / Anolda Cetkauskaite and Simo Laakkonen
Tetiana Perga4. Keeping the Air Clean?: Environmental Policy, Utility Companies, and Social Movements in West Germany since the 1970s / Hendrik Ehrhardt; 5. From Anti-Nuke to Okopax: 1970s Anti-Reactor Activism and the Emergence of West Germany's Mass Movement for Peace / Stephen Milder; 6. An Unguided Boom: Environmental Policies of Cold War Italy / Wilko Graf von Hardenberg
Brian James LeechPART II. The Porous Iron Curtain; 8. Building a Socialist Environment: Czechoslovak Environmental Policy from the 1960s to the 1980s / Eagle Glassheim; 9. Protesting Pollution: Environmental Activism in East Germany and Poland, 1980-1990 / Julia E. Ault; 10. About Environmental Policy in Socialist Yugoslavia / Hrvoje Petrić; 11. ""It Makes No Sense to Work against Nature"": Cold War Modernization in West German Agriculture / Scott Moranda; PART III. Environmentalism and Détente?
Jacob Darwin Hamblin13. East Germany's Fight for Recognition as a Sovereign State: Environmental Diplomacy as Strategy in Cold War Politics / Astrid Mignon Kirchhof; Notes; Contributors; Index
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Includes bibliographies and index.

Intro; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction. Environmentalism, Environmental Policy, Capitalism, and Communism / Astrid Mignon Kirchhof and J. R. McNeill; PART I. Communist and Capitalist Systems Revisited: A Comparison of Their Environmental Politics; 1. Building a Soviet Eco-Power while Looking at the Capitalist World: The Rise of Technocratic Environmentalism in Russian Water Controversies, 1957-1989 / Laurent Coumel; 2. Water Pollution and Protection in the Lithuanian Soviet Republic / Anolda Cetkauskaite and Simo Laakkonen

3. The Fallout of Chernobyl: The Emergence of an Environmental Movement in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic / Tetiana Perga4. Keeping the Air Clean?: Environmental Policy, Utility Companies, and Social Movements in West Germany since the 1970s / Hendrik Ehrhardt; 5. From Anti-Nuke to Okopax: 1970s Anti-Reactor Activism and the Emergence of West Germany's Mass Movement for Peace / Stephen Milder; 6. An Unguided Boom: Environmental Policies of Cold War Italy / Wilko Graf von Hardenberg

7. Nuclear-Free Montana: Grassroots Environmentalism and Montana's Antinuclear Initiatives / Brian James LeechPART II. The Porous Iron Curtain; 8. Building a Socialist Environment: Czechoslovak Environmental Policy from the 1960s to the 1980s / Eagle Glassheim; 9. Protesting Pollution: Environmental Activism in East Germany and Poland, 1980-1990 / Julia E. Ault; 10. About Environmental Policy in Socialist Yugoslavia / Hrvoje Petrić; 11. ""It Makes No Sense to Work against Nature"": Cold War Modernization in West German Agriculture / Scott Moranda; PART III. Environmentalism and Détente?

12. An American Miracle in the Desert: Environmental Crisis and Nuclear-Powered Desalination in the Middle East / Jacob Darwin Hamblin13. East Germany's Fight for Recognition as a Sovereign State: Environmental Diplomacy as Strategy in Cold War Politics / Astrid Mignon Kirchhof; Notes; Contributors; Index

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