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In recent decades, environmental issues have increasingly been incorporated into liberal democratic thought and political practice. Environmentalism and ecologism have become fashionable, even respectable schools of political thought. This apparently successful integration of environmental movements, issues and ideas in mainstream politics raises the question of whether there is a future for what once was a counter-movement and counter-ideology. Liberal Democracy and Environmentalism provides a reflective assessment of recent developments, social relevance and future of environmental.

The grassroots environmental movement of the late 1980s in the former Soviet Union played a key role in reform politics, making or breaking candidates in the 1989–1990 contested local elections across the nation. The collapse of the Soviet Union, the social and economic crises in its successor states were significant factors in the decline and shifting focus of this mass movement. The purpose of this study is to examine the history, ideology and the current direction of Russian environmentalism in the context of the former Soviet Union, and to see how it is being reshaped in Russia today.

Cover -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1 Visions of the Environment -- Chapter 2 Rethinking the Way We Think -- Chapter 3 From Free Grass to Fences -- Chapter 4 From Barbed Wire to Red Tape -- Chapter 5 Bureaucracy versus Environment-The Beat Goes On -- Chapter 6 Inside Our Outdoor Policy -- Chapter 7 Ecology and Energy: Prospecting for Harmony -- Chapter 8 Priming the Invisible Pump -- Chapter 9 Homesteading the Oceans -- Chapter 10 Marketing Garbage: The Solution to Pollution -- Chapter 11 Calling on Communities -- Chapter 12 Taking Free Market Environmentalism Global -- Chapter 13 Purity versus Pragmatism -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

Resilience is turning out to be a resilient concept. First proposed way back in the 1970s in the context of ecosystem dynamics, it was then dissected and elaborated–spawning terms such as malleability, elasticity, hysterisis, inertia, resistance, amplitude–as ecologists struggled to make it into something measurable, usable, and distinct from its notoriously slippery predecessor 'stability'.