Nature and the Iron Curtain
| Titel: | 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 |
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| Beteiligt: | ; |
| Veröffentlicht: | Pittsburgh, Pa : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2019] |
| Umfang: | vi, 312 Seiten : Karten |
| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| ISBN: | 9780822945451 ; 0822945452 |
| Hinweise zum Inhalt: |
Inhaltsverzeichnis
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- Acknowledgments
- p. vii
- Introduction: Environmentalism, Environmental Policy, Capitalism, and Communism
- p. 3
- 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
- p. 17
- 2
- Water Pollution and Protection in the Lithuanian Soviet Republic Anolda Cetkauskaite and Simo Laakkonen
- p. 36
- 3
- The Fallout of Chernobyl: The Emergence of an Environmental Movement in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic
- p. 55
- 4
- Keeping the Air Clean?: Environmental Policy, Utility Companies, and Social Movements in West Germany since the 1970s
- p. 73
- 5
- From Anti-Nuke to Ökopax: 1970s Anti-Reactor Activism and the Emergence of West Germany's Mass Movement for Peace
- p. 87
- 6
- An Unguided Boom: Environmental Policies of Cold War Italy
- p. 102
- 7
- Nuclear-Free Montana: Grassroots Environmentalism and Montana's Antinuclear Initiatives
- p. 116
- Part II
- The Porous Iron Curtain
- 8
- Building a Socialist Environment: Czechoslovak Environmental Policy from the 1960s to the 1980s
- p. 137
- 9
- Protesting Pollution: Environmental Activism in East Germany and Poland, 1980-1990
- p. 151
- 10
- About Environmental Policy in Socialist Yugoslavia
- p. 169
- 11
- "It Makes No Sense to Work against Nature": Cold War Modernization in West German Agriculture
- p. 183
- Part III
- Environmentalism and Détente?
- 12
- An American Miracle in the Desert: Environmental Crisis and Nuclear-Powered Desalination in the Middle East
- p. 205
- 13
- East Germany's Fight for Recognition as a Sovereign State: Environmental Diplomacy as Strategy in Cold War Politics
- p. 219
- Notes
- p. 233
- Contributors
- p. 299
- Index
- p. 303
