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Article: Environmental Transitions: Transformation and Ecological Defence in Central and Eastern Europe. (Reviews).(Brief Article)
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- The Geographical Journal
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- March 1, 2002
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Environmental Transitions: Transformation and Ecological Defence in Central and Eastern Europe. By PETR PAVLINEK and J. PICKLES
London: Routledge, 2000, 362 pp. [pounds sterling]22.99 (pbk) ISBN 0 415 16269 6
This book is an interesting, valuable and timely contribution to studies of geographies of transition in Central and Eastern Europe. The authors declare their aim to be a signalling of the importance of thinking about the environment as 'embedded' in specific social conditions -- thus emphasizing the idea of environment as experienced and constructed. The book explores the relationship between environmental change and social change; the causes and ...