Environmental and Health Problems in the Sakha Republic

Abstract

A Canadian social scientist with extensive field experience in the countries of the former Soviet Union explores linkages between environmental degradation and the deterioration of public health in Russia's largest political-administrative region—the Sakha Republic. The paper presents partial results of a broader research program on social and economic change in the republic and relies upon interviews with officials in government and industry as well as detailed republic-level statistics obtained during field work in the republic in 1997 and 1998. Journal of Economic Literature, Classification Numbers: I10, I31, Q20, Q30. 1 table, 49 references.