The Russian Urban Sustainability Puzzle: How Can Russian Cities Be Green?, Hardcover

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the socio-environmental issues and sustainability challenges facing Russian cities. It encompasses a three-year project in Moscow and Kazan which includes population surveys, mass-media analysis, and interviews with different groups of stakeholders.
The authors offer extensive analysis of the main components of sustainable cities such as air and water quality, sustainable transport and mobility, energy efficiency and energy consumption, waste management, green and blue zones, environmental governance and politics. The conclusion provides critical reflections on how understandings of Russia's sustainability challenges can be used to build more tailored and effective environmental governance for its cities.

About author(s):Polina Ermolaeva, is an Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology at Kazan Federal University and a Research Fellow at the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Yulia Ermolaeva, is a Research Fellow at Kazan Federal University and the Federal Center of Theoretical and Applied Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Olga Basheva, is a Research Fellow at Kazan Federal University and the Federal Center of Theoretical and Applied Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Irina Kuznetsova, is a Lecturer and Fellow at the School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Birmingham.
Valerya Korunova, is a Research Fellow at Kazan Federal University and the Center of Advanced Economic Research in the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Tatarstan.