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20 Collaboration of Regional Government Bodies with Environmental Public Organizations: The Example of Tomsk Oblast
Pages 161-168

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From page 161...
... At the same time, budget expenditures for environmental protection and restoration of natural resources ranged from 0 to 0.3 percent only. In 1995-1999, the environmental fund was from 0.2 to 0.8 percent.
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From page 162...
... prescribes that bodies responsible for environmental protection should provide citizens and the general public with necessary environmental information as well as render assistance to citizens and public organizations in understanding such information. Goskomekologia (now the Ministry of Natural Resources)
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From page 163...
... FORMATION OF AN ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT AND CONSERVATION SYSTEM A compromise between nature and society and the right to a healthy and favorable natural environment is the key principle of environmental management. Another basic principle has been included in the Declaration on the Natural Environment, adopted at the UN Conference in Rio de Janeiro.
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From page 164...
... (A public organization, the Ecological Initiative) · Ban on containers for storing fissile materials received from military units under the governmental decision on sharp reduction of nuclear warheads in Russia.
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From page 165...
... In the course of inspections they prepared 81 claims, and they imposed 73 fines totaling 7,130 rubles. In 1999, complex explorations of the Ob, the Tom, and the Ushaika rivers were conducted under the TESI environmental program "Clean Rivers." The Environmental Legal Center is a public organization founded in 1996 with the objectives of protecting citizens' rights to a safe environment and monitoring environmental legislation.
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From page 166...
... EI also tries to expose "the nuclear myths" about the illusory low-price, ecological safety, and harmlessness of nuclear energy. A Tomsk Oblast public organization, the Wind Rose, was founded in 1992 with the purpose of attracting local attention to environmental problems, to ecologically safe commercial activity, and to ecological education.
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From page 167...
... Nowadays it may be worthwhile to combine all financial payments to the local budget for utilization of natural resources in a joint natural resources restoration fund. The fund could allow for local government bodies to focus financial means on strategic directions.
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From page 168...
... 168 quite reasonable. This is especially the case with regard to the activity of the oiland-gas complex, which destroys these resources.
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