"Environmental Transitions" is a detailed and comprehensive account of the environmental changes in Central and Eastern Europe, both during and after state socialism. The book illustrates how transformations after 1989 have brought major environmental improvements, as well as new environmental problems. "Environmental Transitions" contains detailed case studies from the region including:
* an historical-geographical analysis of the environmental change L * health impacts of environmental degradation
* the role of environmental issues during the anti-communist revolutions
* legislative reform
* the effects of transition on environmental quality after 1989

I: Introduction; 1: The political economy of environmental transitions; 2: Theorizing social and environmental change; II: Nature, risk and the legacies of state socialism; 3: Environmental quality in Central and Eastern Europe; 4: Nature, society and extensive industrialization; 5: Social and environmental regulation under state socialism; 6: Constructing risk; III: Post-communist transformations and the environment; 7: Post-communist reform and the democratization of nature; 8: Environmental legislation and policy; 9: State, environment and information in post-communist transformations; 10: Environmental effects of post-communist transformations; IV: Nature in post-communist societies; 11: Conclusion