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The Development of Czech Environmental Policy 1990-1995
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Abstract The Czech Republic is used as a case study to examine the link between the development of environmental policy & the more general social & economic development of a postcommunist society. The initially progressive arrangement of environmental agencies & procedures of the early 1990s, which were in t... view more
The Czech Republic is used as a case study to examine the link between the development of environmental policy & the more general social & economic development of a postcommunist society. The initially progressive arrangement of environmental agencies & procedures of the early 1990s, which were in tune with concurrent development in the West, was abandoned because of the arrested expansion & diversification of the policy community. The ethos of environmental policy making in the early 1990s, which was a consequence of the special circumstances of that period, could not be maintained because there was no sufficiently strong social group underpinning & advocating these changes. This is documented by the inability of journalists to grasp & further communicate complex environmental issues & by the nonexistence of a social stratum corresponding to the 'new middle class,' from which Western environmental groups draw their support.... view less
Classification
Economic and Social Geography
Special areas of Departmental Policy
Ecology, Environment
Free Keywords
Czechoslovakia; Postcommunist Societies; Environmental Policy; Social Development; Economic Development; Environmentalism; Policy Making; Social Support; Middle Class; Western Society
Document language
English
Publication Year
1999
Page/Pages
p. 37-50
Journal
Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review, 7 (1999) 1
Status
Published Version; reviewed
Licence
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