The Development of Czech Environmental Policy 1990-1995

Journal article | Zeitschriftenartikel

The Czech Republic is used as a case study to examine the link between the development of environmental policy & the more general social & economic development of a postcommunist society. The initially progressive arrangement of environmental agencies & procedures of the early 1990s, which were in tune with concurrent development in the West, was abandoned because of the arrested expansion & diversification of the policy community. The ethos of environmental policy making in the early 1990s, which was a consequence of the special circumstances of that period, could not be maintained because there was no sufficiently strong social group underpinning & advocating these changes. This is documented by the inability of journalists to grasp & further communicate complex environmental issues & by the nonexistence of a social stratum corresponding to the 'new middle class,' from which Western environmental groups draw their support.

Object Details

• Extent: Seite(n): 37-50
• Language: Englisch
• Notes: Status: Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review, 7(1)

Classification and Topics

• Subject: Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie ; Ökologie ; Politikwissenschaft ; spezielle Ressortpolitik ; Ökologie und Umwelt ; Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeographie

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Jehlicka, Petr
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (when): 1999

Further information

• URN: urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-54343
• Rights: GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften. Bibliothek Köln
• Last update: 21.06.2024, 4:26 PM CEST