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Turnock, David

doi:10.1023/a:1021780609487

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“…The problem of severe ambient air pollution and consequent human health and environmental impacts was not limited exclusively to the former Czechoslovakia, but involved other Central European communist countries, such as the former GDR (Eastern Germany or the Democratic Republic of Germany) and Poland [71][72][73]. These three countries ranked among the worst polluters due to emissions from the power generation systems as well as heat production both for industry and municipalities.…”

Section: Air Pollution In the Context Of The Former Communist Countriesmentioning

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Ambient Air Quality in the Czech Republic: Past and Present

Hůnová

2020

Atmosphere

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Based on an analysis of related core papers and reports, this review presents a historical perspective on ambient air pollution and ambient air quality development in the modern-day Czech Republic (CR) over the past seven decades, i.e., from the 1950s to the present. It offers insights into major air pollution problems, reveals the main hot spots and problematic regions and indicates the principal air pollutants in the CR. Air pollution is not presented as a stand-alone problem, but in the wider context of air pollution impacts both on human health and the environment in the CR. The review is arranged into three main parts: (1) the time period until the Velvet Revolution of 1989, (2) the transition period of the 1990s and (3) the modern period after 2000. Obviously, a major improvement in ambient air quality has been achieved since the 1970s and 1980s, when air pollution in the former Czechoslovakia culminated. Nevertheless, new challenges including fine aerosol, benzo[a]pyrene and ground-level ozone, of which the limit values are still vastly exceeded, have emerged. Furthermore, in spite of a significant reduction in overall emissions, the atmospheric deposition of nitrogen, in particular, remains high in some regions.

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Section: Air Pollution In the Context Of The Former Communist Countriesmentioning

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Ambient Air Quality in the Czech Republic: Past and Present

Hůnová

2020

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“…These political and economic transitions in the region were paralleled, and indeed often preceded, by environmental transitions across the Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries (Fagan, 2004;Gille, 2007;Pál, 2017;Pavlinek & Pickles, 2000). Most of these countries suffered from the socialist legacies associated with a number of challenges, such as low social and institutional trust, intolerance to migrants, higher corruption, specific trade links inherited from the 20 th century, forced and intensive industrialisation, which created numerous environmental hotspots in the region (Auer, 2004;Turnock, 2001).…”

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Post-accession backsliding and European Union environmental policies

Buzogány,

Cotta

2024

Global Environmental Politics and International Organizations

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An environmental frontrunner in the Central and Eastern European regions since the late 1990s, Hungary followed a gradual but steady approximation progress to the EU environmental legislation. Previous research established an important role of the participation of economic and societal stakeholders in the decision-making and implementation process based on EU environmental legislation in Hungary. With the victory of the FIDESZ party in the parliamentary elections of 2010, the new government started to change the 'rules of the game' by nationalising infrastructures and weakening market access to foreign stakeholders. Focusing on the water and waste management sectors, the article analyzes the stages that brought Hungary to the recent governments' policy changes. We argue that these changes have departed from the environmental policy practices established during the EU accession process and represent a challenge and a potential backsliding in the implementation of the EU environmental legislation in Hungary. Such changes in policy policies need to be seen in the context of the recent transformation of the political order and of the state-market relations in Hungary.

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Media coverage of sustainable development issues – attention cycles or punctuated equilibrium?

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Barkemeyer

2012

Sustainable Development

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Over the last two decades there has been a marked change in the way that the public perceives environmental issues and the concepts associated with sustainable development. Few would argue that this has moved into the mainstream of public consciousness. Coverage of sustainability related concepts within the media, as illustrated by a sample of 112 worldwide newspapers, shows a clear upward trajectory. Taking the example of climate change and sustainable development, this paper explores this increasing coverage, and arguably awareness, of sustainability concepts, and considers parallels with the concepts of punctuated equilibrium and issue-attention cycles.

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Ambient Air Quality in the Czech Republic: Past and Present

Ambient Air Quality in the Czech Republic: Past and Present

Post-accession backsliding and European Union environmental policies

Media coverage of sustainable development issues – attention cycles or punctuated equilibrium?

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