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.

• 0. Introduction Part One: The Environment as a Security Problem in the Post-Communist World 1. Environmental Security After Communism: The Debate 2. Military Activity and Environmental Security: The Case of Radioactivity in the Arctic 3. Environmental Degradation and Regional Instability in Central Europe Part Two: The Environment and the Energy Sector 4. The Post-Soviet Nuclear Power Program 5. Energy and the Environment in Eastern Europe Part Three: National and Regional Dimensions of Environmental Quality 6. Building Bureaucratic Capacity in Russia: Federal and Regional Responses to the Post-Soviet Environmental Challenge 7. Citizen Participation and the Environment in Russia 8. Central Asia: How to Pick up the Pieces? 9. The Environmental Impact of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania on the Baltic Sea Region