Institute of Sociology of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic

Keynote speech presented at the conference Local institution building for the environment: perspectives from East and West, Gorizia, 9. - 10. 9. 2004 (organised by International sociological association research committee RC24 “Environment and society”, University of Trieste Department of Human Sciences, I.S.I.G. Institute of international sociology Gorizia, Italian Association of Sociology, IUIES - Consortium International University for European Studies)