Description
The players in this story include Latvian farmers and other traditional rural dwellers, environmental advocates, and professionals with divided attitudes toward new European approaches to sustainable development. An entrenched set of forestry and land management practices, with roots in the Soviet and pre-Soviet eras, confront growing international pressures on a small country to conform to current (Western) notions of environmental responsibility-notions often perceived by Latvians to be at odds with local interests. While the case is that of Latvia, the dynamics Schwartz explores have wide applicability and speak powerfully to broader theoretical discussions about sustainable development, social constructions of nature, the sources of nationalism, and the impacts of globalization and regional integration on the traditional nation-state.
About the Author
Katrinia Z. S. Schwartz is assistant professor of political science at the University of Florida.
Book Information
ISBN 9780822959427
Author Katrina Schwartz
Format Paperback
Page Count 360
Imprint University of Pittsburgh Press
Publisher University of Pittsburgh Press