Saving Nature Under Socialism - Transnational Environmentalism in East Germany, 1968 1990

Traces the evolution of environmental policy and protest in East Germany and central Europe during the Cold War.

List of contents

Introduction; 1. Balancing Economy and Ecology: Building toward Environmental Protection, 1945-1970; 2. 'Socialist Environmentalism': Between Practice and Ideal, 1971-1982; 3. Church, Faith, and Nature: An Alternative Environmentalism, 1972-1983; 4. Intertwining Environmentalisms: Transboundary Pollution and Protest in Central Europe; 5. Coming out from behind the Cloud: Environmentalism after Chernobyl; 6. Growing Together? The Environment in the Collapse of Communism; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

About the author

Julia E. Ault is Assistant Professor in the Department of History, University of Utah.

Summary

When East Germany collapsed in 1989–1990, outside observers were shocked to learn the extent of environmental devastation that existed there. Saving Nature Under Socialism introduces readers to environmentalism in Cold War East Germany and traces the evolution of environmental policy and protest in East Germany and central Europe from the 1960s.

Product details

• Authors: Julia E. Ault, Julia E. (University of Utah) Ault
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.02.2023
• EAN: 9781009001656
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0900165-6
• No. of pages: 276
• Series: New Studies in European History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political system; European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, Political structure & processes, Environmentalist thought & ideology, Conservation of the environment, Environmentalist thought and ideology, Political structure and processes