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An environmental history of Russia / Paul Josephson [and four others]

Josephson, Paul R., 1954- [Verfasserin/Verfasser]

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013

1 Online-Ressource (vii, 340 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Englisch

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)

Erscheint auch als: (Druck-Ausgabe)

978-1-139-02104-3 ( : ebook)

978-0-521-86958-4 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 978-0-521-68972-4 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe)

OCoLC: 949923410     

Elektronische Ressource: Zugang über Resolving-System (Lizenzangabe: Lizenzpflichtig)

Digital Object Identifier (DOI): 10.1017/CBO9781139021043

AR 13957  | MG 85915  | NK 4700  | RQ 10915      Ähnliche Literatur

GF602.7

304.20947

*Russland ; Umwelt ; Geschichte 1861-2009     Zum Register

LOC-SH: Environmental degradation -- Russia (Federation) -- History ; Environmental policy -- Russia (Federation) -- History ; Russia (Federation) -- Environmental conditions ; Indigenous peoples -- Ecology -- Russia (Federation) -- History ; Human ecology -- Russia (Federation) -- History

Human ecology ; Russia (Federation) ; History ; Indigenous peoples ; Ecology ; Russia (Federation) ; History ; Environmental degradation ; Russia (Federation) ; History ; Environmental policy ; Russia (Federation) ; History ; Russia (Federation) ; Environmental conditions

The former Soviet empire spanned eleven time zones and contained half the world's forests; vast deposits of oil, gas and coal; various ores; major rivers such as the Volga, Don and Angara; and extensive biodiversity. These resources and animals, as well as the people who lived in the former Soviet Union - Slavs, Armenians, Georgians, Azeris, Kazakhs and Tajiks, indigenous Nenets and Chukchi - were threatened by environmental degradation and extensive pollution. This environmental history of the former Soviet Union explores the impact that state economic development programs had on the environment. The authors consider the impact of Bolshevik ideology on the establishment of an extensive system of nature preserves, the effect of Stalinist practices of industrialization and collectivization on nature, and the rise of public involvement under Khrushchev and Brezhnev, and changes to policies and practices with the rise of Gorbachev and the break-up of the USSR