The post-Soviet decline of Central Asia : sustainable development and comprehensive capital

Eric W. Sievers

Sievers draws on his experience of Central Asia to take on the task of explaining the remarkable economic declines of the post-Soviet Central Asian states (Kazakhstan, Kyrgystan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan) in the past decade, and the turn of these states towards despotism. Dismissing explanations of the decline as the result of Asian' or nomadic' values as simplistic and opportunistic, the author makes use of extensive fieldwork to explain this decline as the result of the region's unbalanced stocks of natural, physical, human, financial, organizational, and social capital ("comprehensive capital"), exacerbated by the influences of development agencies, environmental NGOs, scientists, corrupt local politicians, and the inequitable downside of globalization symbolized by the WTO. There has been a continued worsening of the serious environmental problems of the Soviet era. The region's track record on respect for civil, political, and human rights is no better than, and in some cases worse than, the record of the Soviet Union in its last decades. Drawing on recent developments in economics, law and political science, as well as a wealth of local sources, this book presents a compelling and unorthodox challenge to development agencies, scholars and human rights organizations to realize the implications of globalization and the challenges of sustainable development.

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Sievers draws on his experience of Central Asia to take on the task of explaining the remarkable economic declines of the post-Soviet Central Asian states (Kazakhstan, Kyrgystan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan) in the past decade, and the turn of these states towards despotism.

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[目次]

  • Introduction: Central Asia in Transition - The Capital of Sustainable Development 1. Natural Capital: The Central Asian Human and Natural Environment 2. Human Capital: Health, Education and Science in Central Asia 3. Formal Organizational Capital: Governments and Markets 4. Social Capital: Civil Society and Solidarity 5. International Environmentral Regimes and International Environmentral Law 6. Case Studies: Internationalizing the Central Asian Environment Conclusions: Prospects for Sustainable Development in Central Asia

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  • Introduction: Central Asia in Transition - The Capital of Sustainable Development 1. Natural Capital: The Central Asian Human and Natural Environment 2. Human Capital: Health, Education and Science in Central Asia 3. Formal Organizational Capital: Governments and Markets 4. Social Capital: Civil Society and Solidarity 5. International Environmentral Regimes and International Environmentral Law 6. Case Studies: Internationalizing the Central Asian Environment Conclusions: Prospects for Sustainable Development in Central Asia

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書名 The post-Soviet decline of Central Asia : sustainable development and comprehensive capital
著作者等 Sievers, Eric
Sievers Eric (formerly Massachusetts Institute of Technology USA)
Sievers Eric W.
シリーズ名 Central Asia research forum series
出版元 RoutledgeCurzon
刊行年月 2003
版表示 New ed
ページ数 xii, 248 p.
大きさ 24 cm
ISBN 0700716602
9780415406062
NCID BA62644232
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言語 英語
出版国 イギリス
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