Pollution and Atmosphere in Post-Soviet Russia

Description:

"This study addresses the many initiatives to decrease industrial pollution emitting from the Pechenganikel plant in the northwestern corner of Russia during the final years of the Soviet Union, and examines the wider implications for the state of pollution control in the Arctic today. By examining the efforts of Soviet industry and government agencies, Finnish and Swedish officials, and Norwegian environmental authorities to curb industrial pollution in the region, this book offers an environmental history of the Arctic as well as a transnational, geopolitical history"--

subjects: Environmental engineering,  Factory and trade waste,  Environmental aspects,  Pollution prevention,  Political History (Politics),  Environmental Politics (Politics),  Russia and the FSU (Politics),  Arctic Studies (Politics),  Politics & International Relations