Publications of Mnatsakanian, R.A.

United Nations Environment Programme. Global environment outlook 4 : environment for development. Mnatsakanian RA, Bellinger EG, Ürge-Vorsatz D, editors. Nairobi, Kenya London: United Nations Environment Programme ; Stationery Office distributor; 2007.
Nowicki PL, Mnatsakanian RA. Scenar 2020 : scenario study on agriculture and the rural world. Luxembourg: Office for Official Publication of the European Communities; 2006.
Mnatsakanian RA, Cherp A. Environmental degradation in Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia : past roots, present transition and future hopes. In: Gladman I, editor. Eastern Europe, Russia and Central Asia. London: Centre for Economic Performance (London School of Economics) Publications; 2004. p. 66-70. (Regional surveys of the world).

Okhrana prirody Rossii : ot Gorbacheva do Putina

Nature protection in Russia form Gorbachev to Putin

Cherp A, Mnatsakanian RA. Environmental degradation in Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia: past roots, present transition and future hopes. In: Eastern Europe, Russia and Central Asia. 2003. London: Europe Publications, Taylor and Francis Group; 2003.

Economic transition and environmental sustainability : effects of economic restructuring on air pollution in the Russian Federation

Economic liberalization in former socialist countries may have various implications for their environmental sustainability. Positive effects of this process are potentially associated with improved efficiency, investments into cleaner technologies, responsiveness to environmentally aware markets, and ending subsidies to heavy industries. On the other hand, market liberalization may result in weaker environmental controls, economic instabilities distracting attention from environmental issues, and increasing orientation towards profit-making leading to more intensive exploitation of natural resources. In addition, trade liberalization may result in shifts towards more pollution and resource-intensive industries.This article seeks to quantify effects of economic restructuring in Russia on air pollution from productive economic sectors in the 1990s. Air pollution in Russia had significantly declined in 1991-1999, however, this decline was largely due to economic decline, as the overall pollution intensity of the economy had decreased only slightly. The factors that affected the pollution intensity are: (1) a decrease in the combined share of industrial and transport activities in the economy and (2) changing pollution intensities of the industrial and transport sectors.The pollution intensity of the Russian industry had remained relatively stable during the 1990s. This was the result of the two opposite and mutually canceling trends: (a) increasing shares of pollution-intensive branches such as metal smelting and oil production vs. less pollution intensive manufacturing and (b) decline in pollution intensities within the industrial branches. The article proposes a methodology by which the contribution of both factors to the overall pollution intensity of the industrial sector can be quantified.The pollution intensity of the Russian transport sector appears to have declined in the first half of the 1990s and increased in the second half. The most recent trend can be explained by a rising proportion of private motorcars used for transportation of people and goods instead of traditional rail and other public transport.The findings of the paper demonstrate that shifts towards more pollution-, resource- and energy-intensive industries as a result of economic liberalization emerges as a significant negative factor of the process of economic transition threatening sustainability of emerging market economies. A research agenda to further investigate these impacts is proposed.

Mnatsakanian RA. Environmental Impact Assessment in the Former Soviet Union in its Historical Context. In: Bellinger EG, Lee N, George C, Paduret A, editors. Environmental Assessment in Countries in Transition. Budapest: CEU Press; 2000. p. 12-4. Abstract

Environmental Impact Assessment in the Former Soviet Union in its Historical Context

Based on papers and proceedings of the CEU Summer University Workshop, Budapest July 1996; updated Autumn 1997; finalised for publication December 1999 – t.p. verso

Globalnaia ekologicheskaia perspektiva, 2000

Globalnaia ekologicheskaia perspektiva, 2000 : doklad IUNEP o sostoianii okruzhaiushchei sredy v kontse tysiacheletiia

Environmental reporting in Central and Eastern Europe : a review of selected publications and frameworks

CEU Research project "Re-evaluation of Information on the State of the Environment in CEE and the former USSR"

Mnatsakanian RA, Bellinger EG, Ürge-Vorsatz D. Regional Perspectives. In: United Nations Environment Programme, editor. Global Environment Outlook Report. New York: United Nations Environment Programme; 1997. p. 19-128.
Mnatsakanian RA, Bellinger EG, Ürge-Vorsatz D. Policy Responses and Directions. In: United Nations Environment Programme, editor. Global Environment Outlook Report. New York: United Nations Environment Programme; 1997. p. 129-214.

Poisoned Legacy

Our Planet is the United Nations Magazine for Environmentally Sustainable Development.

Okhrana naslediia za rubezhom : opyt proshlogo i sovremennye problemy : sbornik statei

On the International Experience of Preservation of Cultural and Natural Heritage. Collection of Articles. Published by the Research Institute for Cultural and Natural Heritage. Editor-in-chief and author of preface and one article. Moscow, 1995.

Mnatsakanian RA. Géographie et pouvoir en ex-URSS. In: Morlin E, editor. Penser la Terre : Stratèges et citoyens : le réveil des géographes. Vol 152. Paris: Éditions Autrement; 1995. (Mutations; vol 152).
Mnatsakanian RA. Les cartes, instruments de pouvoir. In: Morlin E, editor. Penser la Terre : Stratèges et citoyens : le réveil des géographes. Vol 152. Paris: Éditions Autrement; 1995. (Mutations; vol 152).
Mnatsakanian RA. Questions d'Écologie. In: Charrin A-V, editor. Les Sibériens : de Russie et d'Asie, une vie, deux mondes. Vol 78. Paris: Éditions Autrement; 1994. (Série monde HS; vol 78).
Mnatsakanian RA, Murashkina S. Preservation of Heritage in Britain. Territoriia : zhurnal o kulturnom i prirodnom nasledii. 1994;1(1). Abstract

Preservation of Heritage in Britain

Territoria, Journal on Cultural and Natural Heritage. Published by the Research Institute for Cultural and Natural Heritage.

Mnatsakanian RA. Environmental legacy of the former Soviet Republics. Edinburgh: Centre for Human Ecology University of Edinburgh; 1992.
Mnatsakanian RA, Altshuler I, Golubchikov Y. Glasnost, Perestroika and Eco-Sovietology. In: Stewart JM, editor. Soviet Environment: Problems, Policies and Politics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 1992. p. 197-212. Abstract

Glasnost, Perestroika and Eco-Sovietology

Selected papers from the IV World Congress on Soviet and East European Studies, Harrogate, July 1990

Ecological Sovietology (in Russian)

Energiia : Journal of the Presidium of the USSR Academy of Sciences

Principles of Information about the State of the Environment in the USA (in Russian)

Information bulletin of the Research Centre "Ecologia"

Transboundary Atmospheric Pollution and the Problems of assessing its Damage (in Russian)

Transboundary Atmospheric Pollution and the Problems of assessing its Damage (with G.Motkin and I. Altshuler). Moscow, edition VINITI, 1988 [IN RUSSIAN].

Glasnost and Ecology (in Russian)

Energiia : Journal of the Presidium of the USSR Academy of Sciences