Environmental Problems in East-Central Europe

In this new edition, the progress made in the last decade to solve the environmental problems described in the first edition is assessed. The attempts to bring environmental legislation into line with West European norms is also described.
In this edition, the progress made in the 1990s to solve the environmental problems described in the first edition of this book is assessed. Attempts to bring environmental legislation into line with West European norms are explored and the book also looks at air and water pollution, modern farming, water supplies, waste management and landscape protection. These topics are placed within economic, social and political profiles, as spending on a clean environment must be reconciled with welfare spending and the safeguarding of jobs. European Union assistance, civil society and the work of environmental NGOs are also discussed. All of these matters are considered within the context of the wider geographical area and then by each individual country, including the previously communist states lying to the west of the Soviet Union (now with the former federal states of Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia broken up into seven different entities) and a review of the Former Soviet Union with particular reference to the Baltic States. The book provides reference material, with supporting literature on environmental conditions and the functioning of civil society and a map of each country. The envi