JUDITH MARQUAND was the first Head of the Economics of Environmental Protection Division in the UK Government Economic Service, chairing the OECD Sub-Committee of Economic Experts. She holds honorary doctorates from Salford University, UK and Tomsk State University, Russia. She held a Research Fellowship at Louvain-la-Neuve University, Belgium and a Senior Simon Research Fellowship at Manchester University, UK. She has headed a research centre at Sheffield University and taught at Oxford University, UK. She is the author of Autonomy and Change.

• List of Maps and Tables Foreword Preface Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Prologue Introduction PART I: BACKGROUND The Russian Context The EU TEMPUS TACIS Programme The UK Know How Fund and SEPS Programmes PART II: THE PROJECTS Introduction to Part II Management Development for TSU Library, 1994-8 TSU Environmental Management Masters Degree, 1995-9 Tomsk Oblast Ecological Committee, 1998-9 Developing Distance Learning in Siberia, 1999-2001 Sustainable Development in Omsk, 2002-03 and 2005 European Studies at TSU, 2000-02, 2003-06 and 2007-08 PART III: LESSONS Lessons from the Projects Lessons for Donors Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index