Strategies and Challenges of Sustainable Development in Eurasia

1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-70407-4
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 174 Seiten, Format (B × H): 183 mm x 260 mm, Gewicht: 538 g

This book examines the main environmental challenges and their management in post-Soviet Eurasia and China. It uncovers international, national, and subnational dimensions in sustainable development and aims to facilitate understanding of pressing environmental problems in the region.

While supporting the values and goals of sustainable development at the international level, states might employ very different strategies at the national, regional and local levels. The goal of this edited book is twofold. First, it aims to advance our understanding of different strategies, paying special attention to China and Russia at global, national, and sub-national levels. Thus, analysis of their strategies across different levels presents a more rounded picture. The second goal is to identify at least a few of the most pressing challenges of sustainable development across post-Soviet Eurasia and China (e.g. nuclear supply chain, emissions, environmental conflict management) and to attempt to understand their triggers, outcomes, and potential solutions. This book reflects the state-of-the-art before the invasion in Ukraine took place. It aspires to develop a better dialogue across different sets of literature in area studies, environmental politics, and international relations to improve our understanding of obstacles to sustainable development in Eurasia.

The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Post-Communist Economies.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Undergraduate Advanced, and Undergraduate Core

Autoren/Hrsg.

Obydenkova, Anastassia

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Nachhaltigkeit

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Citation Information

Notes on Contributors

Introduction: Strategies and challenges of sustainable development in Eurasia

Anastassia Obydenkova

1.    Leadership in high-level forums on energy governance: China and Russia compared

Jale Tosun and Karina Shyrokykh

 

2.   Environmental conflict management: a comparative cross-cultural perspective of China and Russia

Arthur L. Demchuk, Mile Mišic, Anastassia Obydenkova and Jale Tosun

 

3.   Kazakhstan’s climate change policy: reflecting national strength, green economy aspirations and international agenda

Marianna Poberezhskaya and Alina Bychkova

 

4.   Greenhouse gas emissions regulation in fossil fuels exporting countries: opportunities and challenges for Russia

Ilya A. Stepanov and Igor A. Makarov

 

5.   Post-Soviet states and CO2 emissions: the role of foreign direct investment

Raufhon Salahodjaev and Arletta Isaeva

 

6.   Nuclear supply chain and environmental justice struggles in Soviet and Post-Soviet countries

Ksenija Hanacek and Joan Martinez-Alier

 Index

Über Autor(innen)

Anastassia Obydenkova is a Research Scientist at The Institute for Economic Analysis of the Spanish Council for Scientific Research (IAE-CSIC) and Affiliated Professor at Barcelona School of Economics (BSE), Spain. Her main areas of expertise are sustainable development, socio-economic and geopolitical transformations, global environmental politics, and area-focus on Eurasia and China. She is the author and editor of multiple books and articles on these topics. She was awarded research fellowships at Yale, Princeton, and Harvard Universities.