The Soviet Union and Global Environmental Change

This book argues that the Soviet Union was a highly influential actor in furthering understandings of society-nature interaction on the international stage and played a key role in helping to shape, conceptualize and assess the relationship between humankind and the Earth system.

Autorentext

Jonathan D. Oldfield is Reader in Russian Environmental Studies in the School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Birmingham, UK.

Inhalt

1. Introduction2. The Soviet Union and the Great Transformation of the Twentieth Century3. Conceptualising the Physical Environment and the Growing Influence of Humankind on Earth System4. Measuring and Assessing the Wider Environment5. Russia's Place in the Anthropocene 6. Conclusion