Environmental Protection under Authoritarian Regimes in Cold War Chile and Hungary

IF 0.3 Q4 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Global Environment Pub Date : 2021-06-01 DOI:10.3197/ge.2021.140204

Viktor Pál, L. V. Pérez

引用次数: 4

Abstract

Authoritarian regimes are often seen to be hostile toward the environment, albeit there is a growing body of literature suggesting a more nuanced image when it comes to authoritarian governments and the environment. However, several aspects of human-nature relationship need further clarification in non-democratic systems, both on the political left and right. In this article we aim to address that challenge by analysing Cold War economic and environmental goals and responses of the right-wing military junta in Chile under Pinochet and the Hungarian state-socialist, USSR-satellite regime under Kádár. By analysing two radically different political and economic approaches to economic catchup, while mitigating environmental costs on the way, this study aims to understand better the ecological motivations in authoritarian regimes operating diverse political and economic agendas.

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冷战时期智利和匈牙利专制政权下的环境保护

独裁政权通常被视为对环境怀有敌意，尽管越来越多的文献表明，当涉及到威权政府和环境时，他们的形象更为微妙。然而，在非民主制度下，无论是政治上的左翼还是右翼，人与自然关系的几个方面都需要进一步澄清。在本文中，我们旨在通过分析皮诺切特领导下的智利右翼军政府和Kádár领导下的匈牙利国家社会主义苏联卫星政权的冷战经济和环境目标和反应来解决这一挑战。通过分析两种截然不同的经济追赶的政治和经济方法，同时降低环境成本，本研究旨在更好地理解专制政权运作不同政治和经济议程的生态动机。

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Global Environment ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES-

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0.50

自引率

25.00%

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期刊介绍： The half-yearly journal Global Environment: A Journal of History and Natural and Social Sciences acts as a forum and echo chamber for ongoing studies on the environment and world history, with special focus on modern and contemporary topics. Our intent is to gather and stimulate scholarship that, despite a diversity of approaches and themes, shares an environmental perspective on world history in its various facets, including economic development, social relations, production government, and international relations. One of the journal’s main commitments is to bring together different areas of expertise in both the natural and the social sciences to facilitate a common language and a common perspective in the study of history. This commitment is fulfilled by way of peer-reviewed research articles and also by interviews and other special features. Global Environment strives to transcend the western-centric and ‘developist’ bias that has dominated international environmental historiography so far and to favour the emergence of spatially and culturally diversified points of view. It seeks to replace the notion of ‘hierarchy’ with those of ‘relationship’ and ‘exchange’ – between continents, states, regions, cities, central zones and peripheral areas – in studying the construction or destruction of environments and ecosystems.