Jonathan D Oldfield provides a detailed assessment of the changing relationship between Russian society and the wider environment since the fall of the Soviet Union. In addition, the book highlights pressures that are related to Russia's engagement with the global economy.

Jonathan D Oldfield is Lecturer in the Human Geography of Post-Communist States, in the School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, and is Associate Member of the Centre for Russian and East European Studies, both at the University of Birmingham, UK.

Contents: Introduction; The Soviet environmental legacy; Economic restructuring and the wider environment; Governing the environment: the place of the environment in Russia's political-administrative structure; The changing state of the Russian environment; Concluding remarks; Appendix; Bibliography; Index.