Technology and the environment in state-socialist Hungary : an economic history / Viktor Pál.

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Pál, Viktor [Browse]
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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2017]
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xiv, 263 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

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    This book explains how and why the state-socialist regime in Hungary used technology and propaganda to foster industrialization and the conservation of natural resources simultaneously. Further, this book explains why this process was ultimately a failure. By exploring the environmental pre-history of communist Hungary before analyzing the economic development of the Kádár regime, Pál investigates how economic and environmental policies and technology transfer were negotiated between the official communist ideology and the global economic reality of capitalist markets. Pál argues that the modernization project of the Kádár regime (1956-1990) facilitated ecological consciousness - at both an individual and societal level - which provoked great social unrest when positive environmental impact was not achieved. Today, global issues of climate change, urban pollution, resource depletion, and overpopulation transcend political systems, but economic and environmental discourses varied greatly in the twentieth century. This volume is important reading for all those interested in economic and environmental history, as well as political science.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • 1 Introduction; 2 Economy, Technology and the Environment in Europe and in Hungary, 1800-1945; 2.1 Industrialization, Urbanization and the Environment in Western Europe, 1800-1945; 2.2 Industry, Technology and the Environment in East-Central Europe, 1800-1914; 2.3 Industry, Technology and the Environment in Hungary, 1920-1945; 3 Economy, Technology and the Environment in Europe After World War II; 3.1 Economic Growth in Europe After World War II.
    • 3.2 Postwar Reconstruction in Western and Central Europe and Its Environmental Consequences. The Case of Water Pollution; 3.3 Environmental Problems and Environmental Laws in Western Europe and the United States After World War II; 3.4 Environmental Laws and Environmental Quality in Germany in the 1960s-1970s; 4 Stalinist Vision for Economy and Environment in Hungary in the 1950s; 4.1 Postwar Reconstruction and Communist Takeovers in East-Central Europe; 4.2 Stalinist Economic Policies in East-Central Europe in the Early 1950s; 4.3 Stalinist Economic Policies in Hungary in the Early 1950s.
    • 4.4 The First Five Year Plan and Its Economic and Environmental Impact in the Valley of the Sajó River; 5 Economic Reforms and Environmental Protection in Hungary the 1960s; 5.1 Economic Reform Ideas in Hungaryin the 1950s; 5.2 Extensive Development and Environmental Pollution in Hungary in the Late 1950s and Early 1960s; 6 Technological Reform and Environmental Performance in Hungary in the 1960s; 6.1 The Rise of Environmentalism in West Germany in the 1960s-1970s; 6.2 The Economical Shift in Hungary in the 1960s-1970s.
    • 6.3 The Economical Shift and the Energy Shift in the Borsod Basin in the 1960s-1970s; 6.4 The Environmental Impact of the Economical Shift and the Energy Shift in Hungary in the 1960s-1970s; 7 Capacity Building in Environmental Services and the Environmental Shift in Hungary in the 1960s and 1970s; 7.1 Reform of the Pollution Tax System in Hungary After 1969; 7.2 The Environmental Shift in Hungary in the 1970s; 7.3 The Technological Impact of the Environmental Shift; 8 Economic Stagnation and Failed Environmental Reform in the 1970s.
    • 8.1 Limits of the Environmental Shift During the Economic Stagnation of the 1970s; 8.2 Limits of the Environmental Shift During the Economic Stagnation of the Early 1980s; 9 The Environmental Movement and Political Opposition in the 1980s; 9.1 From the Environmental Shift to the Ecological Turn; 9.2 The Ecological Turn; 9.3 Mass Environmentalism and the End of Communism; 10 Epilogue.
    ISBN
    • 3319638319
    • 9783319638317
    OCLC
    992790986
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