Bulgaria in Transition: Environmental Consequences of Political and Economic Transformation
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"This book will be of great interest to every reader who regards with deep concern the processes of transition from totalitarianism to democracy in East Europe. "-- Dr. Gesho Geshev, Director, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Geography

Bulgaria in Transition: Environmental Consequences of Political and Economic Transformation

Edited by Krassimira Paskaleva, Philip Shapira, John Pickles, and Boian Koulov.
Ashgate: Aldershot, England, and Brookfield VT, USA. 1998. ISBN 1 85972 619 4.

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Table of Contents

Part I. The context for transformation
1 Introduction: Development, restructuring and the environment in Bulgaria
John Pickles, Philip Shapira, Brent Yarnal, Boian Koulov and Krassimira Paskaleva
2 Village to state to market: Agricultural ecology and transformation – the Bulgarian experience
Mieke Meurs, Monique Morrissey and Robert Begg
3 Technological hazards in Bulgaria
Mariana Nikolova
4 Linking global priorities and local realities: Nongovernmental organizations and the conservation of nature in Bulgaria
Barbara A. Cellarius
5 Politics, environment and the rule of law in Bulgaria
James Friedberg and Branimir Zaimov
6 The political economy of environmental data in the Bulgarian transformation
John Pickles and Dimitrina Mikhova
Part II. Restructuring at the regional level
7 The environment of Bulgaria and its Burgas region
Stefan Velev and Brent Yarnal
8 The land-use impacts of Bulgarian decollectivization
Brent Yarnal
9 State industrial enterprise and the impacts of restructuring in the Burgas region
Krassimira Paskaleva and Philip Shapira
10 Post-communist change in ecopolitics and environmental management: A case study of Bulgaria’s Burgas region
Boian Koulov
11 Who cares about the environment? Popular attitudes to pollution and environmental reconstruction: Two case studies of Bulgaria and  the Czech Republic
John Pickles, Petr Pavlínek and Caedmon Staddon

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