On the Road to Stockholm. A Case Study of the Failure of Cold War International Environmental Initiatives (Prague Symposium, 1971)

0535476 - ÚSD 2024 RIV DK eng J - Journal Article
Janáč, Jiří - Olšáková, Doubravka
On the Road to Stockholm. A Case Study of the Failure of Cold War International Environmental Initiatives (Prague Symposium, 1971).
Centaurus. Roč. 62, 19.10.2020 (2020), s. 132-149. ISSN 0008-8994. E-ISSN 1600-0498
R&D Projects: GA ČR(CZ) GJ18-05095Y; GA ČR(CZ) GA19-04546S
Institutional support: RVO:68378114
Keywords : cold war * environment * Czechoslovakia
OECD category: History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)
Impact factor: 0.200, year: 2020
Method of publishing: Limited access
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1600-0498.12329

In May 1971, the Czechoslovak capital hosted an international conference on the environment that brought together high‐ranking government officials and scientists from both sides of the Iron Curtain. Organized under the auspices of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), the meeting aimed to be an important stepping‐stone in the formation of a new international institutional landscape related to the environment. Nonetheless, the Symposium on Problems Relating to Environment was overshadowed by the 1972 United Nations Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm, the outcomes of which were instrumentalized by the Soviets to promote their own international policy aims associated with the Brezhnev Doctrine. Based on a detailed analysis of materials produced by the event organizers (archived in Prague and Geneva), this paper shows how Cold War geopolitics played a decisive role in shaping emerging global environmentalism.
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