Natural Resources in Eastern Europe
Political Ecologies of Local Transformation
Published in September 2005
Book
Paperback/Softback
192 pages
978-1-4051-2916-9 (ISBN)
Description
(Un) Natural Resources examines the complex roles played by 'natural resources' in the environmental and political-economic transformations of Eastern European countries since the collapse of communist central planning. The author draws on ethnographic case studies to argue that natural resources are anything but 'natural' and that careful attention needs to be paid to the ways in which natural resources are re-constituted as objects of particular kinds of local development, state management, and commercial exploitation in the postcommunist transformation period. The book is an important contribution to scholarship of environmental issues and of postcommunist transition.
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Series
Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
library and academic readership in environmentalism and natural resources, social construction of nature, post-communist transformations, East-European area studies specialists
Edition type
New edition
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-4051-2916-9 (9781405129169)
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Persons
Dr Caedmon Staddon is Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at the Faculty of the Built Environment, University of West England.
Content
Part I: Orientations: 1. Localities, Natural Resources and Postcommunist Transformation In Eastern Europe2. Post Communist Eastern Europe At The Beginning Of The New Millennium Part II: Wood: 3. Restituting Ownership Over Forest Resources4. Seeing The Forest For The Trees: Restructuring Forestry In Eastern Europe5. Politics Of A Pine Cabinet: Industrial Restructuring and Access To Resources In Poland and Bulgaria6. Parks Versus Parquet: Conservation Dilemmas Part III: Water: 7. Development and Water In The Communist Period8. Squandered Natural Heritage: Social Construction Of Water Shortages9. Privatising Water: Eastern European Experiences10. Water, Power and Post Communist Transition: The Political Ecology Of Bulgaria's First 'War For Water' Part IV: Reorientations: 11. (Un)Natural Resources: Resources, Communities and The Geographical Imagination.