Soviet Union
and Eastern Europe:
State of the Environment
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This guide offers a review of the literature in the collections
of the Library of Congress on the state of the environment in
the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. Although only English-language
sources are listed, references to materials in other languages
can also be traced by means of the subject headings provided on
the following page. Not intended to be a comprehensive bibliography,
this guide is designed--as the name of the series implies--to
put the reader "on target."
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Karpowicz, Z. J. Conservation and environmental protection. In
Science and technology in the USSR. Michael J. Berry, editor. Burnt
Mill, Harlow, Essex, UK, Longman; Detroit, distributed exclusively
in the USA and Canada by Gale Research Co., 1988. (Longman guide
to world science and technology, 6) p. 361-379.
Includes bibliographical references.
Q127.S696S325 1988 <SciRR>
Tarnoff, Curt. Eastern Europe and the environment. Congressional
Research Service review, v. 11, Mar./Apr.
1990: 29-31.
JK1.U54a and Pamphlet box <SciRR>
Describes the relationship between the democratization
process in Eastern Europe and the political concern over the deteriorating
environment.
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Subject headings used by the Library of Congress (with geographical
subdivisions) under which relevant books on environmental concerns
in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe can be identified in most
card, book, and online catalogs, include the following:
Highly Relevant
AIR--POLLUTION
ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
POLLUTION
WATER--POLLUTION
Relevant
ECOLOGY
ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH
ENVIRONMENTAL LAW
NATURAL RESOURCES
WATER, UNDERGROUND--POLLUTION
WATER QUALITY MANAGEMENT
Related
CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES
NATIONAL PARKS AND RESERVES
NATURAL AREAS
NATURE CONSERVATION
SOIL CONSERVATION
SOIL EROSION
WILDLIFE CONSERVATION
See subdivision ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS under various subject headings,
e.g., FOREST RESERVES--ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS; MINES AND MINERAL
RESOURCES--ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS
Consult Subject Headings, Library of Congress for other subject
headings, depending on area of interest. Many subject headings, including
all of those listed above, may be subdivided geographically, e.g.,
ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY--SOVIET UNION
AIR--POLLUTION--CZECHOSLOVAKIA
AIR--POLLUTION--LITHUANIA
POLLUTION--RUSSIAN S.F.S.R.--BAIKAL LAKE REGION
BAIKAL LAKE (R.S.F.S.R.)
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From below: independent peace and environmental movements in Eastern
Europe and the USSR, October 1987. New York, U.S. Helsinki Watch
Committee, c1987. 263 p.
Includes bibliographies.
JX1952.F868 1987
Jancar-Webster, Barbara. Environmental management in the Soviet
Union and Yugoslavia: structure and regulation in federal communist
states. Durham, Duke University Press, 1987. 481 p.
Bibliography: p. 407-436.
HC340.E5J35 1987
Marcinkiewicz, Jan. Pollution in the heart of Europe. London, Polish
Society of Arts and Sciences Abroad, 1987. 55 p.
TD186.5.P7M37 1987
Originally presented at the Congress of Polish
Culture held in London, Sept. 1985.
Völgyes, Iván, ed. Environmental deterioration in the
Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. New York, Praeger Publishers, 1974.
168 p.
Includes bibliographical references.
TD186.5.R9V6
Ziegler, Charles E. Environmental policy in the USSR. Amherst,
University of Massachusetts Press, 1987. 195 p.
Bibliography: p. 167-191.
HC340.E5Z53 1987
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Environmental policies in Yugoslavia: a review. By the OECD and
its Environment Committee undertaken in 1985 at the request of the
Government of Yugoslavia. Paris, Organisation for Economic Co-operation
and Development; Washington, OECD Publications and Information Centre,
distributor, c1986. 160 p.
Includes bibliographical references.
HC407.Z9E555 1986
Environment statistics in Europe and North America: an experimental
compendium. United Nations Statistical Commission and Economic Commission
for Europe. New York, United Nations, 1987. 100, 87 p. (Statistical
standards and studies. Conference of European Statisticians, no.
39)
Bibliography: p. II-83-II-87.
Pt. 1. Time series data and indicators--pt. 2.
Statistical monograph of the Baltic Sea environment.
TD186.E98 1987 <SciRR>
Environmental protection: tasks and results: information from the
German Democratic Republic. Translated by Intertext. Berlin, Panorama
DDR, [1985], 1986 printing. 70 p.
TD171.5.G35E4 1986
Translated from the German.
Goldman, Marshall I. The spoils of progress: environmental pollution
in the Soviet Union. Cambridge, Mass., M.I.T. Press, 1972. 372 p.
Bibliography: p. [333]-357.
TD187.5.R9G63
Kiselev, N. N. Our common home. Translated from Russian by Gennady
Miram. Notre maison commune. Traduit du russe par Vladimir Evintov.
Kiev, Politvidav Ukraini Publishers, 1986. 189 p.
TD171.5.S65K57 1986
Title in colophon: Nash obshchii dom.
A Környezet állapota és védelme. State
and protection of the environment. Központi Statisztikai Hivatal
Társadalmi Statisztikai Foosztaly Környezetstatisztikai
Osztályan; [Edited by] Eszter Horváth. Budapest, Kozponti
Statisztikai Hivatal, 1986. 330 p.
Includes bibliographies
Introduction in English and Russian.
TD171.5.H9K66 1986
Mallinckrodt, Anita M. The environmental dialogue in the GDR: literature,
church, party, and interest groups in their socio-political context:
a research concept and case study. Lanham, Md., University Press
of America, c1987. 198 p.
Bibliography: p. 167-192.
Co-published by arrangement with the International
Symposium on the German Democratic Republic.
JA76.M335 1987
Pryde, Philip R. Conservation in the Soviet Union. Cambridge, Eng.,
University Press, 1972. 301 p.
Bibliography: p. 264-294.
S934.R9P76
Weiner, Douglas R. Models of nature: ecology, conservation, and
cultural revolution in Soviet Russia. Bloomington, Indiana University
Press, c1988. 312 p.
Bibliography: p. 289-306.
QH77.S626W45 1988
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Alfoldi, Laszlo, and Bela Papp. The problems of environmental
protection for subsurface waters in Hungary. Budapest, Research
Institute for Water Resources Development, 1976. 115 p. (Research
Institute for Water Resources Development. Publications in foreign
languages, 12)
GB726.H8B83 no. 12
Askochenskii, Aleksandr Nikolaevich. Irrigation and water supply
in the USSR. Translated from the Russian by E. V. Maltsina. Moscow,
Mir Publishers, 1970. 162 p.
S616.R9A813
Translation with revisions of Oroshenie i obvodnenie
v SSSR.
Environmental pollution with special reference to air pollutants
and to some of their biological effects. Edited by M. Y. Nuttonson.
Silver Spring, Md., American Institute of Crop Ecology, 1973. 124
p. (AICE survey of USSR air pollution literature, v. 19)
Includes bibliographies
Translation from the Russian.
This volume is part of a survey of USSR literature
on air pollution conducted by the Air Pollution Section of the American
Institute of Crop Ecology.
TD883.E57
Environmental statistics 1975-1980. Hungarian Central Statistical
Office. Budapest, Central Statistical Office, 1981. 67 p.
TD171.5.H9E58 1981
Forest ecosystems in industrial regions: studies on the cycling
of energy, nutrients, and pollutants in the Niepolomice Forest,
southern Poland. Edited by W. Grodzinski, J. Weiner, and P. F. Maycock.
Berlin, New York, Springer-Verlag, 1984. 277 p. (Ecological studies,
v. 49)
Bibliography: p. 246-267.
QH162.F67 1984
Komarov, Boris. The environmental risk of the developing oil and
gas industry in western Siberia. By Zeev Wolfson (Boris Komarov).
Jerusalem, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Soviet and East European
Research Centre, 1983. 21 p. (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem,
the Soviet and East European Research Centre. Research paper, no.
52)
Bibliography: p. 20-21.
HD9502.S653S575 1983
Lake Stechlin: a temperate oligotrophic lake. Edited by S. Jost
Casper. Dordrecht, Boston, W. Junk; Hingham, Mass., distributors
for the U.S. and Canada, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1985. 553 p.
(Monographiae biologicae, v. 58)
Includes bibliographies.
QP1.P37 vol. 58
Medvedev, Zhores A. Nuclear disaster in the Urals. Translated by
George Saunders. New York, Norton, c1979. 214 p.
Includes bibliographical references.
TD196.R3M42 1979
Mote, Victor L. Environmental constraints to the economic development
of Siberia. Washington, Association of American Geographers, 1978.
2 v. 166 p. (Discussion paper - Association of American Geographers,
no. 6)
Includes bibliographical references.
HC337.S5M67
At head of title: Association of American Geographers,
project on Soviet natural resources in the world economy.
Predel'no dopustimye kontsentratsii i orientirovochnye bezopasnye
urovni vozdeistviia vrednykh veshchestv vob"ektakh vneshnei
sredy. English. Maximum allowable concentrations and tentative safe
exposure levels of harmful substances in the environmental media:
hygienic standards officially approved in the USSR. Compiled by
M. I. Bukovsky and others. Translated by V. E. Tatarchenko. Moscow,
Centre of International Projects, GKNT, 1984, c1983. 113 p.
RA1229.5.P7413 1984
At head of title: United Nations Environment Programme
and others.
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Sanchez, James. Large scale interbasin water transfer projects
in Soviet regional planning. Chicago, CPL [Council of Planning Librarians]
Bibliographies, c1985. 20 p. (CPL bibliography, no. 158)
Z7935.S26 1985
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Environmental management: British and Hungarian case studies. Edited
by Paul A. Compton, Márton Pécsi. Translated by Gy.
Bora and others. Rev. by P. A. Compton, D. Loczy. Budapest, Akadémiai
Kiadó, 1984. 263 p. (Studies in geography in Hungary, 16)
Includes bibliographies
Papers presented at the Third British-Hungarian
Geographical Seminar, held at the University of East Anglia, Sept.
16-25, 1982.
HC260.E5E58 1984
Environmental problems in the Soviet Union & Eastern Europe
Edited by Fred Singleton. Boulder, L. Rienner, 1987. 208 p.
Includes bibliographies.
Selected papers from the Third World Congress
for Soviet and East European Studies, held in Washington, D.C.,
Oct. 30-Nov. 4, 1985, sponsored by the International Committee for
Soviet and East European Studies and the American Association for
the Advancement of Slavic Studies.
TD171.5.S65E58 1987
Finnish-Polish Seminar on Water Pollution Control in Pulp and Paper
Industry, Helsinki, 1985. Finnish-Polish Seminar on Water
Pollution Control in Pulp and Paper Industry, Helsinki, 25-27 September,
1985. Helsinki, Ministry of the Environment, Environmental Protection
and Nature Conservation Dept.; Available from Government Printing
Centre, 1986. 229 p. (Series D, 18/1986)
Includes bibliographies.
TD195.P37F56 1985
The Finnish-Soviet symposium on national parks and nature reserves.
Helsinki, Maa- ja metsatalousministerio, 1983. 89 p. (Luonnonvarainhoitotoimiston
julkaisuja, 7)
Includes bibliographies.
QH77.F55F59 1983
International Slavic Conference, 1st, Banff, Alta., 1974.
Environmental misuse in the Soviet Union. Edited by Fred Singleton.
New York, Praeger, 1976. 100 p.
Includes bibliographical references
"The fifth of eight volumes of papers from
the first international conference sponsored by the American Association
for the Advancement of Slavic Studies ..."
HC340.E5I59 1974
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Abstracting and Indexing Services that index relevant journal
articles and other literature are listed below. Consult a reference
librarian for location of these items in the Science Reading Room
A.I.D. Research & Development Abstracts (1974- )
HD82.U535a <SciRR>
See: Environment and Natural Resources
Applied Science & Technology Index (1913- )
Z7913.I7 <SciRR>
See: All headings beginning with Environment(al)
Air Pollution
Pollution
Water Pollution
Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts (1971- )
QH90.A1A68 <SciRR>
See: Geographic index by sea area delimitations,
e.g., PNE--USSR--Siberia; INW--Okhotsk Sea; or by geographic subdivisions,
e.g., Hungary--Balaton L.; USSR--Ladoga L.; Yugoslavia--Danube R.
Bibliography on Cold Regions Science & Technology
(1951- )
GB2401.U53 <SciRR>
See: All headings beginning with Environment(al)
Air Pollution
Pollution
Water Pollution
Biological & Agricultural Index (1916- )
Z5073.A46 <SciRR>
See: Subjects headings of interest with geographic
subdivisions, e.g.,
Forest Ecology--Czechoslovakia;
Environmental Policy--Poland
Environment Abstracts Annual (1971-)
GF1.E553 <SciRR>
(Formerly published with companion volume Environment
Index, 1971-1987.)
See: Geographic index, e.g., USSR; Baltic Sea;
Hungary; Germany, East
Environmental Periodicals Bibliography (1972- )
Z5863.E57E58 <SciRR>
See: Geographic headings, e.g., USSR--Black Sea;
Baltic Sea--Poland
General Science Index (1978- )
Z7401.G46 <SciRR>
See: All headings beginning Environment(al)
Air Pollution
Pollution
Water Pollution
Oceanic Abstracts (1968- ) GC1.O24 <SciRR>
See: Geographic index by sea area delimitations,
e.g.,
ANE--Poland--Gdansk Bay; ANE--USSR--Estonia;
USSR--Aral Sea; PNE--USSR--Siberia
Pollution Abstracts (1970- )
TD172.P65 <SciRR>
See: Geographic headings, e.g., Poland--Baltic
Sea;
Czechoslovakia--Reservoirs; Baltic Sea; Lake Balaton;
USSR--Environmental Monitoring; Danube River;
USSR--Lakes
Public Affairs Information Service Bulletin (1915- )
Z7163.P9 SSRR
See: Environmental Policy
Geographic headings, e.g., Poland; Europe, Eastern
Selected Water Resources Abstracts (1968- )
TC1.S45 <SciRR>
See: Geographic headings, e.g., Danube River;
USSR;
Soviet Union; Lake Baikal; Caspian Sea
Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature (1900- )
AI3.R45
See: All headings beginning Environment(al)
Air Pollution
Pollution
Water Pollution
UNDOC: Current Index: United Nations Document Index (1979-
)
Z6481.U19 Newspaper & Current Periodical
Reading Room
reference collection
See: Geographic headings, e.g., Eastern Europe,
USSR,
Balkan Region, Yugoslavia, Byelorussian SSR
UNESCO List of Documents and Publications (1979- )
Z6485.U43a Newspaper & Current Periodical
Reading Room reference collection
See: Geographic headings, e.g., Eastern Europe,
USSR, Czechoslovakia, Ukrainian SSR
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Journals in a wide variety of fields may contain articles on the
environment in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe include:
Ambio |
QH540.A52 |
Current Digest of the Soviet Press |
D839.C87 |
East European Reporter |
DJK50.E152 |
New Scientist |
Q1.N52 |
Science |
Q1.S35 |
Soviet Geography |
G1.S65 |
Soviet Journal of Ecology |
QH540.E4413 |
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Glenny, Misha. Living in a socialist smog. New scientist, v. 115,
Sept. 24, 1987: 41-44.
Q1.N52
Hinrichsen, Don. The forest decline enigma. BioScience, v. 37,
Sept. 1987: 542-546.
QH1.A277
Maddox, John. Ambitions for Lake Baikal. Nature, v. 337, Jan. 12,
1989: 111.
Q1.N2
Micklin, Philip P. Desiccation of the Aral Sea: a water management
disaster in the Soviet Union. Science, v. 241, Sept. 2, 1988: 1170-1176
.
Q1.S35
Mironovskii, A. N., A. V. Kozhara, and V. N. Yakovlev. Principles
of formation of population structure in cyprinid fishes of the Volga-Caspian
region. Soviet journal of ecology, v. 20, no. 1, 1989: 17-22.
QH540.E4413
Möller, D., and H. Schieferdecker. Ammonia emission and deposition
of NHx in the G.D.R. Atmospheric environment, v. 23, no. 6, 1989:
1187-1193.
TD881.A8
Perczel, Karoly, and George Libik. Environmental effects of the
dam system on the Danube at Bos-Nagymaros. Ambio, v. 18, no. 4,
1989: 247-249.
QH540.A52
Schoenfeld, Gabriel. A dosimeter for every dacha. Bulletin of the
atomic scientists, v. 45, July/Aug. 1989: 13-15.
TK9145.A84
Stansky, Pavl. Pollution: the tale of Bratislava. East European
reporter, v. 3, autumn 1988: 26-30.
DJK50.E152
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Technical Reports and other types of literature are indexed in
the following guides:
EPA Publications Bibliography (1970- )
Z5863.P7U58a <SciRR>
See: Geographic headings or subjects of interest
Government Reports Announcements & Index (1946- )
Z7916.G78 <SciRR>
See: Geographic subdivisions, e.g., USSR; Poland;
Baltic Sea; etc.
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Selected materials available in the Science Reading Room pamphlet
boxes include the following: Bilger, Burkhard. When the smoke clears. Earthwatch, v. 9, Dec.
1989: 18-24.
Ellis, William S. The Aral: a Soviet sea lies dying. National
geographic, v. 177, Feb. 1990: 73-93.
French, Hilary F. The greening of the Soviet Union. World watch,
v. 2, May/June 1989: 21-29.
Hinrichsen, Don. Poland's chemical cauldron. Amicus journal, v.
10, spring 1988: 3-7.
Kabala, Stanley J. Economic growth and the environment in Yugoslavia:
an overview. Ambio, v. 17, no. 5, 1988: 323-329.
McClave, David. An agenda for the future: U.S.-Soviet cooperation
to protect the environment and conserve resources. Journal of environmental
health, v. 51, Mar./Apr. 1989: 191-194.
Perlowski A. Budgets to fight pollution in Poland 1980-1985. Environmental
policy review: the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. v. 1, June 1987:
38-43.
Sun, Marjorie. Environmental awakening in the Soviet Union. Science,
v. 241, Aug. 26, 1988: 1033-1035.
Yanshin, A. L. Reviving Vernadsky's legacy: ecological advances in
the Soviet Union. Environment, v. 30, Dec. 1988: 6-9, 26-27.
This is one of three articles in this issue in a
section entitled "Glasnost and ecology: three reports from the
Soviet Union."
Ziegler, Charles E. The bear's view: Soviet environmentalism. Technology
review, v. 90, Apr. 1987: 44-51.
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INFOTERRA/U.S. National Focal Point
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
401 M Street, SW (PM211A)
Washington, DC 20460
Telephone: (202) 382-5917
International directory of sources. INFOTERRA directory. Nairobi,
Kenya, The United Nations Environmental Programme, annual. ISSN
8602-6175.
Not in LC collection.
Photocopies of selected pages concerning organizations
in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe are in the pamphlet box in
the Science Reading Room.
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