The fall of the Soviet Union was a transformative event for the national political economies of Eastern Europe, leading not only to new regimes of ownership and development but to dramatic changes in the natural world itself. This painstakingly researched volume focuses on the emblematic case of...

Title Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Figures -- Preface -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Dragomirești and Dragova -- Chapter 2. Postsocialism as Neoliberalism -- Chapter 3. Bureaucrats, Patronage, Illegal Logging -- Chapter 4. Contested...

Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of Contents -- List of Tables and Maps -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Politics, Policies and Legal Measures -- The National Politics of Early Post-Socialism -- Poland -- Hungary -- Czechoslovakia and the Czech and Slovak Republics -- Bulgaria --...

The aim of the present study is to shed some light on the factors affecting Pollution Abatement and Control Expenditure (PACE) in the context of a transition economy such as Romania, in contrast to the existing literature which mostly focuses on developed economies. Specifically, we use survey...

The transition process in Central and Eastern Europe was associated with growing environmental awareness. This paper analyses the determinants of Pollution Abatement and Control Expenditure (PACE) at plant level in the case of Romania using survey data and a Multilevel Regression Model (MRM)....

Die vorliegende Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit der Transformation ehemals zentralverwaltungswirtschaftlich organisierter Länder aus Mittel- und Osteuropa in marktwirtschaftlich organisierte Volkswirtschaften. Neben dem Ziel der Integration in das Wirtschaftsgeschehen der Europäischen Union...

The importance of new firm creation in the post-Communist economies of East Central Europe (ECE) has been subject to extensive research. This paper focuses on an area of entrepreneurship which has received relatively little attention in the transition economy context but which is of particular...