Learning to Manage Global Environmental Risks

Volume 1: A Comparative History of Social Responses to Climate Change, Ozone Depletion, and Acid Rain

The Social Learning Group
The MIT Press, 2001

Part II: Studies of Arenas

Chapter 6
Turning Points: The Management of
Global Environmental Risks in the Former Soviet Union

Vassily Sokolov and Jill Jäger with Vladimir Pisarev, Elena Nikitina, Alexandre Ginzburg, Elena Goncharova, Jeannine Cavender-Bares, and Edward A. Parson

6.1	Introduction
6.2	The Domestic Context of Environmental Management in the Former Soviet Union
6.2.1	Political and Economic Institutions
6.2.2	The Evolution of Environmental Management
6.3	The Management of Global Environmental Risks in the Former Soviet Union
6.3.1	Acid Rain
6.3.2	Ozone Depletion
6.3.3	Climate Change
6.4	Explaining the Evolution of the Management Process
6.4.1	Controlled Learning: The Rise and Fall of Hydromet
6.4.2	Unexpected Alliance : The Soviet Military and Social Concern for the Global Environment
6.4.3	The Missing Link: Public Pressure and the Media
6.4.4	External Influences: The Cold War, Détente, and the Global Environment
6.5	Conclusion: The Troubles of Transition
Appendix 6A	Acronyms
Appendix 6B	Chronology Notes References