Hollow Sustainabilities? Perspectives on Sustainable Development in the Post-socialist World

Geography Compass

Volumn 4, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1618-1634

  Whitehead, Mark ^a  

^a ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPITALISM; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; MARKET TRANSITION; SOCIALISM; SUSTAINABILITY; THEORETICAL STUDY;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EASTERN EUROPE; RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

EID: 79251478426     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17498198     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-8198.2010.00398.x     Document Type: Article

References (59)

1. Adams, W. (1993). Green development. London: Routledge.
2. Agyeman, J. and Ogneva-Himmelberger, J. (eds) (2009). Environmental justice and sustainability in the former Soviet Union. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
3. Agyeman, J., Bullard, R. D. and Evans, B. (eds) (2003). Just sustainabilities: development in an unequal world. London: Earthscan.
4. Alcoma, J. (1992). A geographic overview of environmental problem areas in Central and Eastern Europe. In: Alcoma, J. (ed.) Coping with crisis in Eastern Europe's environment. London: Parthenon, pp. 27-45.
5. Baker, S. (2000). Between the devil and the deep blue sea: international obligations, eastern enlargement and the promotion of sustainable development in European Union. Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning 2, pp. 149-166.
6. Baker, S. and Jehlicka, P. (1998). Dilemmas of transition: the environment, democracy and economic reform in east central Europe - an introduction. Environmental Politics 7, pp. 1-26.
7. Beckmann, A. (1999). A quiet revolution: the influence of environmental organizations in the Czech Republic, Central Europe Review 1 Internet edition. [Online]. Retrieved on 1 February 2010 from
8. Benton, T. (ed.) (1996). The greening of Marxism. New York: The Guildford Press.
9. Bernstein, S. (2000). Ideas, social structure and the compromise of liberal environmentalism. European Journal of International Relations 6, pp. 464-512.
10. Bialasiewicz, L. (2002). The re-birth of Upper Silesia. Regional and Federal Studies 12 (2), pp. 111-132.
11. Bradshaw, M. and Stenning, A. (2004). Introduction: transformation and development. In: Bradshaw, M. and Stenning, A. (eds) East Central Europe and the former Soviet Union. Harlow: Pearson, pp. 1-32.
12. Bridges, O. and Bridges, J. W. (1996). Losing hope: the environment and health in Russia. Aldershot: Ashgate.
13. Burkett, P. (1999). Marx and nature: a red and green perspective. London: MacMillan.
14. Campbell, R. W. (1991). The socialist economies in transition: a primer on semi-reformed systems. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
15. Carter, F. W. and Turnock, D. (eds) (1996). Environmental problems of East Central Europe. London: Routledge.
16. Connelly, S. (2007). Mapping sustainable development as a contested concept. Local Environment 12, pp. 259-278.
17. Dziegiel, L. (1998). Paradise in a concrete cage - daily life in communist Poland: an ethnologist view. Cracow: Arcana.
18. Fagan, A. and Jehlicka, P. (2003). Contours of the Czech environmental movement: a comparative analysis of Hnuti Duha (Rainbow Movement) and Jihoceske Matky (South Bohemian Mothers). Environmental Politics 12 (2), pp. 49-70.
19. Gare, A. (1996). Soviet environmentalism: the path not taken. In: Benton, T. (ed.) The greening of Marxism. New York: The Guildford Press, pp. 111-128.
20. Gibbs, D. and Krueger, R. (2005). Exploring local capacities for sustainable development. Geoforum 36 (4), pp. 407-409.
21. Hamdouch, A. and Zuindeau, B. (2010). Sustainable development, 20years on: on methodological innovations, practices and open issues. Journal of the Environmental Planning and Management 54 (4), pp. 427-438.
22. Hicks, B. (1996). Environmental politics in Poland: a social movement between regime and opposition. New York: Columbia University Press.
23. Humphrey, C. (2002). Does the category 'postsocialism' still make sense? In: Hann, C. (ed.) Postsocialism: ideals, ideologies and practices in Eurasia. London: Routledge, pp. 12-14.
24. Jehlicka, P. (2001) The new subversives - Czech environmentalists after 1989. In: Flam, H. (ed.) Pink, purple, green: women's, religious, environmental, and gay/lesbian movements in Central Europe today, East European Monographs. Boulder, CO: Columbia University Press, pp. 81-94.
25. Jehlicka, P. (2009). The souvenirs of communism: missed opportunities for sustainable development innovations in the enlarged European Union? In: Wilson, G., Furniss, P. and Kimbowa, R. (eds) Environment, development, and sustainability: perspectives and cases from around the world. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 45-53.
26. Jehlicka, P. and Tickle, A. (2004). The environmental implications of eastern enlargement of the European Union: the end of progressive EU environmental policy? Environmental Politics 13 (1), pp. 77-95.
27. Katowice Voivodship (1991). Statistical yearbook of the Katowice Voidvodship. Katowice: Katowice Voivodship.
28. Krueger, R. and Gibbs, D. (eds) (2007). The sustainable development paradox: urban political economy in the United States. London: The Guildford Press.
29. Marx, K. (1978). Genesis of capital. Moscow: Progress Publishers.
30. McManus, P. (1996). Contested terrains: politics, stories and discourses of sustainability. Environmental Politics 5 (1), pp. 48-71.
31. Medvedev, A. A. [Trans. by Grødeland, A.R.] (1992). The global impact of the Chernobyl accident five years after. In: Stewart, J. M. (ed.) The Soviet environment: problems, policies and politics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 174-196.
32. Mol, A. (2009). Environmental deinstitutionalization in Russia. Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning 11, pp. 223-241.
33. Neumayer, E. (2003). Weak versus strong sustainability - exploring the limits of two opposing paradigms. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
34. Oldfield, J. (2001). Russia, systematic transformation and the concept of sustainable development. Environmental Politics 10, pp. 94-110.
35. Oldfield, J. D. (2005). Russian nature: exploring the environmental consequences of societal change, Environmental Policy & Practice Series. Aldershot: Ashgate Press.
36. Oldfield, J. and Shaw, D. (2002). Revisiting sustainable development: Russian cultural and scientific traditions and the concept of sustainable development. Area 34, pp. 391-400.
37. Oldfield, J., O'Hara, S. and Shaw, D. (2004). Environment and environmentalism. In: Bradshaw, M. and Stenning, A. (eds) East Central Europe and the former Soviet Union. Harlow: Pearson, pp. 137-160.
38. Pavlínek, P. and Pickles, J. (2000). Environmental transitions: transformation and ecological defence in Central and Eastern Europe. London: Routledge.
39. Pickles, J. and Smith, A. (eds) (1998). Theorizing transition: the political economy of post-communist transformations. London: Routledge.
40. Pryde, P. (1972). Conservation in the Soviet Union. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
41. Pryde, P. (1991). Environmental management in the Soviet Union. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
42. Read, P.-R. (1993). Ablaze: the story of Chernobyl. London: Secker and Warburg.
43. Redclift, M. (1987). Sustainable development: exploring the contradictions. London: Routledge.
44. Sarre, P. and Jehlicka, P. (2007). Environmental movements in space-time: the Czech and Slovak republics from Stalinism to post-socialism. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 32 (3), pp. 346-362.
45. Shmelev, N. and Popov, V. (1990). The turning point: revitalizing the Soviet economy. New York: I. B. Tauris.
46. Stenning, A. (2002). Placing (post-)socialism: the making and remaking of Nowa Huta, Poland. European Urban and Regional Studies 7, pp. 99-118.
47. Stenning, A. (2005). Post-socialism and the changing geographies of everyday life in Poland. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 20, pp. 113-127.
48. Swyngedouw, E. (2007). Impossible/undesirable sustainability and the post-political condition. In: Krueger, J. R. and Gibbs, D. (eds) The sustainable development paradox. New York: Guilford Press, pp. 13-40.
49. The Economist (2006). Still Blue: the world's biggest lake has seen off one threat. Can it survive its own beauty? The Economist, 7 September.
50. Tomeczek, A. (1993). Revindicational social movements in the border region: a sociological case study. In: Szezepanski, M. (ed.) Dilemmas of regionalism and the region of dilemmas. Katowice: University of Silesia, pp. 162-174.
51. Weiner, D. R. (1988). The changing face of Soviet conservation. In: Worster, D. (ed.) The ends of the earth: perspectives on modern environmental history. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 252-273.
52. Weiner, D. R. (1990). Prometheus rechained: ecology and conservation. In: Graham, L. R. (ed.) Science and the Soviet social order. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, pp. 71-93.
53. Weiner, D. R. (1999). A little corner of freedom: Russian nature protection from Stalin to Gorbachëv. London: University of California Press.
54. Weiner, D. R. (2000). Models of nature: ecology, conservation and cultural revolution in Soviet Russia. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press.
55. While, A., Jonas, A. and Gibbs, D. (2004). The environment and the entrepreneurial city: the 'sustainability fix' in Leeds and Manchester. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 28 (3), pp. 549-569.
56. Whitehead, M. (2005). Between the marvellous and the mundane: everyday life in the socialist city and the politics of the environment. Society and the Space 23 (2), pp. 273-294.
57. Whitehead, M. (2007). Spaces of sustainability: geographical perspectives on the sustainable society. London: Routledge.
58. Wolfson, Z. (1988). Ecological problems as natural problems: Lake Sevan in Armenia, Lake Baikal and the Volga. Environmental Policy Review 2 (2), pp. 3-16.
59. Yablokov, A. (1992). Notes on the environmental situation in Russia. Environmental Policy Review 6, pp. 1-20.