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Nature and the Iron Curtain : environmental policy and social movements in Communist and capitalist countries, 1945-1990
\"Nature and the Iron Curtain contrasts communist and capitalist countries with respect to their environmental politics in the context of the Cold War. Its chapters draw from archives across Europe and the U.S. to present new perspectives on the origins and evolution of modern environmentalism on both sides of the Iron Curtain. The book explores similarities and differences among several nations with different economies and political systems, and highlights connections between environmental movements in Eastern and Western Europe\"-- Dust jacket.
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Ice and Snow in the Cold War
The history of the Cold War has focused overwhelmingly on
statecraft and military power, an approach that has naturally
placed Moscow and Washington center stage. Meanwhile, regions such
as Alaska, the polar landscapes, and the cold areas of the Soviet
periphery have received little attention. However, such
environments were of no small importance during the Cold War: in
addition to their symbolic significance, they also had direct
implications for everything from military strategy to natural
resource management. Through histories of these extremely cold
environments, this volume makes a novel intervention in Cold War
historiography, one whose global and transnational approach
undermines the simple opposition of \"East\" and \"West.\"
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Ice and snow in the Cold War : histories of extreme climatic environments
\"The history of the Cold War has focused overwhelmingly on statecraft and military power, an approach that has naturally placed Moscow and Washington center stage. Meanwhile, regions such as Alaska, the polar landscapes, and the cold areas of the Soviet periphery have received little attention. However, such environments were of no small importance during the Cold War: in addition to their symbolic significance, they also had direct implications for everything from military strategy to natural resource management. Through histories of these extremely cold environments, this volume makes a novel intervention in Cold War historiography, one whose global and transnational approach undermines the simple opposition of 'East' and 'West'-- Provided by publisher.
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Cleaning Up the Bomb Factory
Housewives, hard hats, and an Ohio town's restoration of
the radioactive wasteland in its backyard In 1984, a
uranium leak at Ohio's outdated Fernald Feed Materials Production
Center highlighted the decades of harm inflicted on Cold War
communities by negligent radioactive waste disposal. Casey A.
Huegel tells the story of the unlikely partnership of grassroots
activists, regulators, union workers, and politicians that
responded to the event with a new kind of environmental movement.
The community group Fernald Residents for Environmental Safety and
Health (FRESH) drew on the expertise of national organizations
while maintaining its autonomy and focus on Fernald. Leveraging
local patriotism and employment concerns, FRESH recruited
blue-collar allies into an innovative program that fought for both
local jobs and a healthier environment. Fernald's transformation
into a nature reserve with an on-site radioactive storage facility
reflected the political compromises that left waste sites improved
yet imperfect. At the same time, FRESH's outsized influence
transformed how the government scaled down the Cold War weapons
complex, enforced health and safety standards, and reckoned with
the immense environmental legacy of the nuclear arms race. A
compelling history of environmental mobilization, Cleaning Up
the Bomb Factory details the diverse goals and mixed successes
of a groundbreaking activist movement.
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Arming Mother Nature : the birth of catastrophic environmentalism
Are today's environmental crises linked to the plans for World War Three? The United States and its allies prepared for a global struggle against the Soviet Union by using science to extend \"total war\" ideas to the natural environment. This book links environmental warfare to the environmental crises of the 1970s and beyond.
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Cleaning Up after the Cold War: Experts Call for Action on Abandoned Uranium Mines on the Navajo Nation
An estimated 4,225 abandoned uranium mines formerly operated by the federal government and its contractors in support of Cold War weapons development remain on tribal lands across the U.S. West.1 In light of the significant threats to human health posed by these former mines, particularly via ongoing contamination of surface and groundwater sources,2,3,4 a group of experts in Tribal environmental health has proposed a more comprehensive path forward. In a recent commentary in Environmental Health Perspectives, the five authors—four of whom represent different Indigenous North American communities—propose a series of specific policy recommendations for improving upon current approaches toward the enormous and challenging issue of uranium-contaminated water sources.5 [Image omitted - see PDF] “Flint was the red flag for toxic metals in urban drinking water, but if you look in Indian Country, there are Flints everywhere,” says coauthor Ann Marie Chischilly (Navajo Nation), director of the Institute for Tribal Environmental Professionals at Northern Arizona University and a member of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s National Drinking Water Advisory Council. A 2017 study of mining and environmental health disparities in Indigenous communities estimated that approximately 300,000 American Indian people live within 10 km of a uranium mine.8 Abandoned uranium mines can also be a source of arsenic, copper, nickel, and selenium says Johnnye Lewis, lead author of that paper and director of the University of New Mexico METALS Superfund Research Program Center.
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EU Decarbonization under Geopolitical Pressure: Changing Paradigms and Implications for Energy and Climate Policy
This paper aims to assess the impact of EU energy and climate policy as a response to Russia’s war in Ukraine on the EU decarbonization enterprise. It showcases how the Russian invasion was a crunch point that forced the EU to abandon its liberal market dogma and embrace in practice an open strategic autonomy approach. This led to an updated energy and climate policy, with significant changes underpinning its main pillars, interdependence, diversification, and the focus of market regulation and build-up. The reversal of enforced interdependence with Russia and the legislative barrage to support and build-up a domestic clean energy market unlocks significant emission reduction potential, with measures targeting energy efficiency, solar, wind, and hydrogen development; an urban renewable revolution and electricity and carbon market reforms standing out. Such positive decarbonization effects, however, are weakened by source and fuel diversification moves that extend to coal and shale gas, especially when leading to an infrastructure build-up and locking-in gas use in the mid-term. Despite these caveats, the analysis overall vindicates the hypothesis that geopolitics constitutes a facilitator and accelerator of EU energy transition.
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The Geoeconomics of Renewable Energy: China’s Strategic Positioning and Impact on the EU Market
A key component of sustainable transitions is the shift to renewable energy (RE) sources. Much scholarly work has focused on technical challenges of RE production or on social, political, and economic barriers to RE adoption. However, less research has focused on the geopolitical dynamics that could affect also inhibit RE transitions. This is especially true given China’s growing leverage over the production and trade of materials critical to RE production, distribution, and storage. Understanding the mechanisms, objectives, and implications of China’s dominance in the RE market requires a thorough overview. To analyse China’s strategic positioning in the global RE market, we apply a geoeconomics framework, highlighting the interplay between economic power, territorial strategies, and institutional mechanisms. China resembles the function of geopolitical chokepoints by imposing control over important components of the RE market and addressing trade and investment bottlenecks through institutional mechanisms. The study draws attention to the geoeconomic paradox that cooperation and competition coexist and promote market integration despite interdependencies. Being the second-largest producer of RE, the European Union both benefits from and faces difficulties as a result of China’s market power. We show how China’s geoeconomic strategies increase its influence globally and foster intricate interdependencies, which both facilitate market growth and exacerbate tensions with other strong powers.
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