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Viktor Vovk - Senior Fellow



Communist Industrial Society, Development after Communism, Global Trends and Scenarios of World Development, Sustainability as a Development Strategy, Politics of Sustainability, Sustainable Economy

Ukrainian, Russian, English

Viktor Vovk is a Worldwatch senior fellow whose research deals with the challenge of sustainable development in the post-communist world. A native Ukrainian, he is deputy director at the Institute for Sustainable Development in Kyiv. He also serves as a consultant on sustainable development issues to the Ukrainian Parliament’s Committee on Environmental Policy and Natural Resource Use as well as to individual parliamentarians in other committees. Viktor has managed the publication of the Ukrainian edition of Worldwatch's State of the World 2000-2002 reports, Al Gore's Earth in the Balance, Herman Daly's Beyond Growth: The Economics of Sustainable Development, UN's Agenda 21 program, as well as other books. He is a Member of the Board of the National NGO "Ukraine: Agenda 21" and of the Civic Society Institute in Kyiv.

  • "Red Past, Green Future? Sustainable Development for Ukraine and the Post-Communist

Viktor has spoken to audiences at political meetings, NGO seminars, university classes, international conferences, and parliamentary events.

Viktor's work has been featured in various Ukrainian newspapers and magazines.