Think global act local? Negotiating sustainable development under postcommunist transformation |
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Authors: | Caedmon Staddon David Turnock |
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Institution: | (1) Faculty of the Built Environment, University of the West of England, Frenchay Campus, Coldharbour Lane, Bristol, BS16 1QY, U.K.;(2) Geography Department, The University, Leicester, LE1 7RH, U.K. |
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Abstract: | These essays are offered as a contribution to the ongoing scholarly discourse concerned with environmental problems in East
Central Europe (ECE). In this volume we concentrate on the local through papers that indicate the nature of environmental
challenges and ways in which progress is being made not merely by legislation but by negotiating sustainability in a range
of local situations. Written by social scientists, largely geographers and anthropologists, from Western Europe as well as
ECE and North America these essays provide ethnographically-detailed case studies of local environmental transformations in
eight different countries. The emphasis on locality studies unites all the authors who, in different ways, develop the central
idea that the macrosociological oversimplifications of the 1980s and 1990s can only be countered, and indeed corrected, through
careful consideration of the diversity of local realities. All the case studies are concerned with the environmental dimensions
of postcommunist transformations, whether that be through pollution abatement, restructuring over rights to natural resources
such as forests or the implementation of ecotourism as a local redevelopment strategy. Sustainable development is therefore
a leitmotif of this collection and most of the papers offer empirically-grounded critique of the concept insofar as it has
permeated debates about local development in the postcommunist world.
This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. |
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