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Environmental Disaster in the Post-Communist Countries: Is There a Solution?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 June 2005

Lada V. Kochtcheeva
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The breakdown of the Soviet Union revealed to the world that much of the expanse of the former communist bloc is an environmental disaster area. This paper shows that a switch to a free-market economy has failed so far to produce any significant improvements, and in the future is even likely to reinforce old threats and generate new ones.

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Environmental Practice , Volume 4 , Issue 1 , March 2002 , pp. 10 - 13
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© 2002 National Association for Environmental Professionals

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