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Environmental Governance in Russia: The ‘Closed’ Pathway to Ecological Modernization

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  • Masahiro Tokunaga

    (Faculty of Commerce, Kansai University, 3-3-35 Yamate-cho, Suita, Osaka 564-8680, Japan)

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This paper examines the development of environmental governance in Russia, using the concept of ecological modernization as an analytical framework for an empirical study. From an investigation into both the relationship between economic growth and environmental stress on the basis of the revised model of decoupling and the development of institutional capacity for environmental policy in recent years, this paper reveals that Russia's pathway to ecological modernization is now ‘closed’ in most spheres owing to the economic crisis that followed the collapse of the Soviet Union; this is in contrast to China's experience, wherein ecological modernization has been ‘forced’ as a national policy. Russia is considered to be a typical case of failure of realization of industrial restructuring leading to a relative reduction in environmental stress in a centrally planned economy. Moreover, the country's hyperdepression since the introduction of a market economy has hindered the search for a pathway to medium-term and long-term ecological modernization, which has been exchanged for short-term ‘ecological improvement without environmental policy’.

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  • Masahiro Tokunaga, 2010. "Environmental Governance in Russia: The ‘Closed’ Pathway to Ecological Modernization," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 42(7), pages 1686-1704, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:envira:v:42:y:2010:i:7:p:1686-1704
    DOI: 10.1068/a42285
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