ABSTRACT
This chapter seeks to explore questions surrounding one aspect of a common response to environmental problems in East Central Europe (ECE): social and political mobilisation in the form of environmental movements. Recent work by a number of authors has described the socialist and post-socialist history, politics and sociology of such mobilisations both in ECE and Russia (Hicks 1996; K. Pickvance 1998; Tickle and Welsh 1998; Weiner 1999) but usually from only a national or regional perspective. Other country-based chapters within this volume also note the role such environmental movements play in national environmental politics.
