Joan DeBardeleben is director of the Institute of Central/East European and Russian-Area Studies at Carleton University. She has written many articles and a book on the environmental situation in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. She edited To Breathe Free: Eastern Europe's Environmental Crisis, which was published in 1991, and is author of Soviet Politics in Transition (1992). Also edited by John Hannigan.

• Introduction -- The Environment as a Security Problem in the Post—Communist World -- Environmental Security After Communism: The Debate -- Military Activity and Environmental Security: The Case of Radioactivity in the Arctic -- Environmental Degradation and Regional Instability in Central Europe -- The Environment and the Energy Sector -- The Post-Soviet Nuclear Power Program -- Energy and the Environment in Eastern Europe -- National and Regional Dimensions of Environmental Quality -- Building Bureaucratic Capacity in Russia: Federal and Regional Responses to the Post-Soviet Environmental Challenge -- Citizen Participation and the Environment in Russia -- Central Asia: How to Pick Up the Pieces? -- The Environmental Impact of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania on the Baltic Sea Region