The development and pollution of two rivers, the Danube and Tisza, have been the site and subject of environmental protests and projects in Hungary since the late 1980s. Protests against the damming of the Danube rallied opposition to the state socialist government, drawing on discourses of national sovereignty and international environmentalism. The Tisza suffered a major environmental disaste...

1. Purpose and scope 2. General survey methodology 3. Qualitative information 3.1 Eastern Europe 3.2 Bulgaria 3.3 Czech Republic 3.4 Estonia 3.5 Hungary 3.6 Latvia 3.7 Lithuania 3.8 Moldova 3.9 Poland 3.10 Romania 3.11 Russia 3.12 Slovakia 3.13 Ukraine 3.14 Republics and provinces of the former Yugoslavia: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, Slovenia, Voivodi...

Department of Physiology, Charitè-University Medicine Berlin, Thielallee 71, D-14195 Berlin, Germany; Cardiovascular Research Center, CSIC-ICCC, Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, CIBERObn-Institute Carlos III, Barcelona, Spain; Department of Internal Medicine, Section of Cardiology, Policlinico S. Orsola, 40138 Bologna, Italy; Department of Cardio-Thoracic-Vascular Medicine, San Raffaele Sc...

Millions of East-Europeans started businesses during the transformational recession but, according to a wide-spread interpretation, many of them did so only temporarily and ‘unwillingly’ under the threat of unemployment. The paper looks at the relevance of the ‘disguised unemployment approach to entrepreneurship’ using regional data.It first examines how net flows into self-employment were affe...