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(Un) Natural Resources examines the complex roles played by 'natural resources' in the environmental and political-economic transformations of Eastern European countries since the collapse of communist central planning. The author draws on ethnographic case studies to argue that natural resources are anything but 'natural' and that careful attention needs to be paid to the ways in which natural resources are re-constituted as objects of particular kinds of local development, state management, and commercial exploitation in the postcommunist transformation period. The book is an important contribution to scholarship of environmental issues and of postcommunist transition.