Sally Stoecker is a Scholar-in-Residence, School of International Studies, American University, Washington, DC, USA.Ramziya Shakirova is a research analyst at Independent Project Analysis (www.ipaglobal.com) and holds a doctorate in Public Policy from the School of Public Policy, George Mason University, Arlington, VA, USA.

"The book does make a valuable contribution in bringing together work from Russian experts and making it available to a wider audience. The technical detail means that the collection will be of interest to readers seeking to gain a greater understanding of the extent of key environmental problems and their management in Russia." THOMAS O’BRIEN Cranfield University at the Defence Academy of the United Kingdom"...taken as a whole, the empirical chapters are indicative of widespread and somewhat convoluted corrupt activities with respect to certain natural resources, intensified by the accidental infringement of environmental legislation in some cases. As such, they provide a useful basis for future work in this area." Jonathan D. Oldfield, University of Birmingham

• Introduction 1. Envisaging Environmental Crime in Russia: Past and Present Realities 2. Russia’s Nuclear Industry and the Environment 3. Forest Auctions in Russia: How Anticorruption Laws Facilitate the Development of Corrupt Practices 4. Combating Corruption and Organized Crime in the Forest Sector, Trans-Lake Baikal Territory 5. Environmental Crimes on the Territory Adjacent to the Petroleum-Storage Facility in the Town of Kama in the Kambarsk Region of the Udmurt Republic 6. The Impact of Metallurgical and Cement Industrial Waste on Central Russia’s Environment 7. Environmental Contamination and Public Health in the Republics of Tatarstan and Mari El, Russian Federation