The Russian far east: Foreign direct investment and environmental destruction

Ecologist

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 68-72

  Newell, Josh ^a   Wilson, Emma ^a  

^a Friends Earth Japan's Russ Far E ^*

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[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT; MAN-ENVIRONMENT RELATIONS; RESOURCES EXPLOITATION;

RUSSIAN FEDERATION, (EAST);

EID: 0030478470     PISSN: 02613131     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (21)

1. Geographers disagree on the exact boundaries of the Russian Far East. Some limit the region to areas affected by the monsoon climate and the Pacific Ocean - Primorskiy, Khabarovsk, Amur, Sakhalin, Magadan, Chukotka and Kamchatka. Others, defining the RFE according to its economic ties with the Pacific Rim, include the Republic of Yakutia and Chita Oblast. We have chosen the latter definition.
2. Minakir, P. et al. (eds.). The Russian Far East: An Economic Handbook, Sharpe, New York, 1994, pp.45-46.
3. Ivanov, V., "Russia and Northeast Asian Subregionalism: A Conceptual Framework", Paper given at the Fifth Meeting of the Northeast Asia Economic Forum in Niigata, Japan, February 1995, p.50.
4. Russian Far East Update, February 1995, Seattle, Washington.
5. Ivanov, V., op. cit. 3, p.49.
6. Abusow, K., "Fertile Ground for Investment in Russia's vast forests", Far Eastern Economic Journal, January 1995, pp.48-49.
7. Global Forestry Management Group, Fact Sheet, Seattle, Washington, 1995.
8. Russian Far East Update, 1995.
9. Belsky, J., Letter to The Oregonian, 1 December 1994.
10. In the late 1960s, the Soviet government initiated a number of development projects in coordination with the Japanese government and Japanese trading companies. These agreements provided Japan with raw materials in exchange for machinery and low-interest loans. The first agreement was the KS Sangyo project, signed in 1968. Two more KS Sangyo agreements followed in the 1970s. The fourth KS Sangyo agreement is currently under negotiation.
11. Russian Far East Update, April 1995.
12. Minakir, P. et al. (eds.), op. cit. 1, p.77.
13. Solovyvov, S., "Ecology and Economy in Kamchatka", Paper given at Friends of the Earth-Japan Hotspot Conference, Vladivostok, January 1995, p.2.
14. Solovyvov, S., Kamchatka Association of Greens, personal communication.
15. Gordon, D., Siberian Forests Protection Project, Pacific Environment and Resources Centre (PERC), personal communication.
16. Bundtzen, T.K., "RFE Mineral Industry", Russian Far East News, February 1995, p.3.
17. Ibid., pp.2-3.
18. Odgers, T., Unpublished report for the Sacred Earth Network, p.3.
19. Brobrick, B., East of the Sun: The Epic Conquest and Tragic History of Siberia, Henry Holt, New York, 1992, pp.442-443.
20. Russian Far East Update, February 1995.
21. Russian ornithologists at el., "Open (unsent) letter to the United Nations Development Programme and the Primorskiy Regional Government", 1995.