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> Date: Wed, 20 Aug 1997 11:58:46 +0100
> From: Bernd_Baumgartl@etf.it
> To: asajh@UAA.ALASKA.EDU
> Subject: Re: A Global Union
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> Sorry for disturbing, but I wanted to post the below message to "wsn".
> Given that I subscribed from a different account and mail is forwarded
> here,
> the listproc does not accept mail from me from this place.
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> As you recently sent mail to "wsn", I would kindly ask you to post it on
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> Sorry again, and thanks for the favour.
> Bernd Baumgartl
Sure!
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> Message:
> New Publication:
>
> Kluwer Law International
> International Environmental Policy and Law Series
> ISBN 90-411-0681-2
>
> Transition and Sustainability.
> Actors and Interests in Eastern European Environmental Policies
>
> Bernd Baumgartl
>
> Foreword by Susan Strange
> Introduction by Emil Minchev
>
> This study links two of the main themes of European social science in the
> 1990s: the transition of Eastern Europe and the question of Sustainable
> Development. In an interdisciplinary approach, both the viewpoints of
> Eastern Europe being a case of environmental development, and the
> Environment as a case of the difficulties in the East European
transition,
> are analysed.
> The study convincingly argues that Sustainable Development adopts a
> specific meaning in the context of transition. After documentating the
> history of environmental policy in Bulgaria based on both Western and
> Eastern sources, the relevant actors for the Eastern European environment
> and their interests are identified. It is recognised that in the course
of
> post-Communist transition other issues like the emergence of parties,
> privatisation, restitution of property and even the trialing of Communist
> failures became more important. Both in Eastern and Western Europe, the
> environmental concern was also overshadowed by economic constraints, and
> declined on the reform agenda.
> Nevertheless, concrete policy recommendations point to ways how
Sustainable
> Development might be aimed at also in transition economies.
>
> Susan Strange started her professional life as a journalist, and her
> academic career as Professor of International Political Economy at the
> London School of Economics. After 5 years at the European University
> Institute she is now affiliated with the University of Warwick. Currently
> president of the International Studies Association. Amongst her
> publications "Casino Capitalism", "Rival States, Rival Firms" (Cambridge
UP
> 1992), and "States and Markets" (Pinter 1994).
>
> Emil Minchev is the former director of the Bulgarian Institute of
> International Relations. His current area of research is the Bulgarian
> foreign policy and its relations with the European Union.
>
> Bernd Baumgartl studied history, slavic and romance philology at the
> Universities of Mexico, Salzburg and Sofia, and holds a Ph.D. in Social
and
> Political Sciences. 1990-1995 Researcher at the European University
> Institute in Florence, and Academic Visitor at the London School of
> Economics and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Currently Analyst at
> the European Training Foundation in Turin. Editor of "New Xenophobia in
> Europe" (Kluwer Law International 1995).
>
> Current Address:
> European Training Foundation, Villa Gualino, viale Settimio severo 65,
> I-10133 Torino, Italy
> Tel: 39-11-630-2268; Fax: 39-11-630-2200; Email: bba@etf.it
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