Paradoxes of conservation and development in postsocialist Bulgaria: recent controversies

Based on extensive primary research in the 1990s a number of contemporary Bulgarian environmental controversies are examined, which highlight some of the paradoxes of sustainable development in a postsocialist context. Water sector controversies such as the Djerman‐Skakavitsa diversion project fores...

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Published in:European environment 2002-03, Vol.12 (2), p.105-116
Main Authors: Staddon, Caedmon, Cellarius, Barbara
Format: Article
Language:English
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Summary:Based on extensive primary research in the 1990s a number of contemporary Bulgarian environmental controversies are examined, which highlight some of the paradoxes of sustainable development in a postsocialist context. Water sector controversies such as the Djerman‐Skakavitsa diversion project forest and national park and other protected area management controversies in the Rila and Pirin National Parks and the Rhodope mountains are sketched. Extension and creation of new protected areas presents both challenges and opportunities to local residents and conservation agencies alike but creative solutions are at least being considered within a framework of sustainable regional development. It is found that dependence on natural resource hinterlands for commodity and non‐commodity uses provides for new, complex and contested regulation between stakeholders and the postsocialist state at a variety of scales from the local to the global, with nested though mutable, scale‐dependent relations. Copyright © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. and ERP Environment.
ISSN:0961-0405
1099-0976
DOI:10.1002/eet.289