Martus Russian Environmental Politics

State, Industry and Policymaking
Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-1-351-67996-1
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 212 Seiten

Reihe: BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies

Protecting the environment is a key issue for Russia, with its vast wilderness areas and its economy’s reliance on extractive industries, which have the potential to cause massive pollution. This book explores how policymaking works in Russia, focusing on the important field of environmental policy. It argues that, contrary to the prevailing view that the presidency dominates the policy process, with Putin making all major decisions or at least being the arbiter between conflicting parties, policy is in fact made by a range of competing interests including the bureaucracy and influential industry and industrial association lobbyists, with relatively little intervention from Putin. The book shows how, although Russia does not have a strong civil society, environmentalist views are represented through the institutionalized bureaucracy. The book concludes that policy decision making in Russia is quite dispersed and not overcentralized.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Martus, Ellie

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Environmental Politics in Russia: Actors, institutions and policies

- The Development of a National Forest Policy

- Protecting the Sea from Oil Pollution

- The ‘Best Available Technology’ Debate

- Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Ellie Martus completed her doctorate at the University of New South Wales