With the enlargement of the European Union, the accession countries
are coming under pressure to develop and meet EU standards for
environmental protection and sustainable development. In this
ongoing process, global economic liberalization, regulatory policy,
conservation, and lifestyle issues are all involved, and creative
solutions will have to be found. Historians, geographers,
economists, ecologists, business management experts, public policy
specialists, and community organizers have come together in this
volume and examine, for the first time, environmental issues
ranging from national and regional policy and macroeconomics to
local studies in community regeneration. The evidence suggests
that, far from being mere passive recipients of instruction and
assistance from outside, the people of Central and East Central
Europe have been engaged actively in working out solutions to these
problems. Several promising cases illustrate opportunities to
overcome crisis situations and offer examples of good practices,
while others pose warnings. The experiences of these countries in
wrestling with issues of sustainability continue to be of
importance to policy development within the EU and may serve also
as examples for both developed and developing countries worldwide.
Zbigniew Bochniarz, is affiliated to the Evans School of Public
Affairs at the University of Washington in Seattle. He spent over
twenty years at the University of Minnesota's Humphrey Institute
where he founded a Center for Nations in Transition. The Center
became an international leader in delivering foreign assistance for
Central and Eastern Europe. His work focuses on economic,
environmental, and social aspects of sustainability of transforming
economies. He is the author, co-author and/or editor of over 100
publications. Gary B. Cohen, has been director of the Center for
Austrian Studies and professor of history at the University of
Minnesota, Twin Cities, since 2001. He teaches and publishes on
modern Central European social and political history. He is the
author of numerous articles and essays as well as two books, The
Politics of Ethnic Survival: Germans in Prague, 1861-1914 (first
edition, Princeton Univ. Press,1981; rev. 2nd ed., Purdue Univ.
Press, 2005) and Education and Middle-Class Society in Imperial
Austria, 1848-1918 (Purdue Univ. Press, 1996).
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