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Gesendet am: Donnerstag, 21. August 1997 10:17
An: WORLD SYSTEMS NETWORK
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> Sorry again, and thanks for the favour.
> Bernd Baumgartl
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> Message:
> New Publication:
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> Kluwer Law International
> International Environmental Policy and Law Series
> ISBN 90-411-0681-2
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> Transition and Sustainability.
> Actors and Interests in Eastern European Environmental Policies
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> Bernd Baumgartl
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> Foreword by Susan Strange
> Introduction by Emil Minchev
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> 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.
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> 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).
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> 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.
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> 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).
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> 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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