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Investigation and Analysis of Printed Media Attention in Azerbaijan to the Environmental Problems During the Years 1986-2008: Media As a Way to Sustainability Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo Graduate Program in Sustainability Science 2009-2010 Master’s Thesis Investigation and analysis of printed media attention in Azerbaijan to the environmental problems during the years 1986-2008: media as a way to sustainability Submitted in (August, 2009) Principal Advisor: Professor Yarime Masaru Co-Advisor: Professor Onuki Motoharu (076963 Tahira Mammadova) I Table of Contents ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ....................................................................................................... 1 ABSTRACT ............................................................................................................................... 3 1. INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................................. 5 1.1. BACKGROUND ............................................................................................................. 5 1.1.1 Political and economic conditions USSR and post- Soviet Azerbaijan ............... 10 1.1.2 Environmental condition in USSR and post-Soviet Azerbaijan ........................... 16 1.1.2.1 GENERAL ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS ............................................................................ 19 1.1.2.2 CASPIAN SEA ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS ..................................................................... 29 1.1.3 Laws on mass media and access to the information in Azerbaijan ..................... 40 1.2 LITERATURE REVIEW ..................................................................................................... 44 2. OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY .................................................................................... 52 3. METHODOLOGY .......................................................................................................... 57 4. NEWSPAPER COVERAGE OF ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES IN CASPIAN SEA. 61 4.1 IDENTIFYING THE THEMES AND FREQUENCY OF CASPIAN SEA RELATED ARTICLES ........ 61 4.2 IDENTIFYING THE PROMINENCE OF THE CASPIAN SEA RELATED ARTICLES ..................... 71 4.3 SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS ...................................................................................... 76 5. NEWSPAPER COVERAGE OF ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES .................................. 78 5.1 IDENTIFYING THE THEMES AND FREQUENCY OF GENERAL ENVIRONMENTAL ARTICLES .. 78 5.2 IDENTIFYING THE PROMINENCE OF GENERAL ARTICLES ................................................. 93 5.3 SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS ...................................................................................... 97 6. THEME COMBINATION AND STATE OF SCIENTIFIC COLLABORATION OF JOURNALISTS IN BOTH STUDIES. .................................................................................. 99 7. DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSSIONS ....................................................................... 107 8. REFERENCES ............................................................................................................. 112 I. APPENDIX ................................................................................................................... 120 II List of Figures Figure 1: Core indicators on ICT infrastructure per 100 inhabitants (State Statistics Committee of Azerbaijan Republic). ......................................................................................... 8 Figure 2: Population movement and migration linked to conflicts and economic drivers (UNEP/GRID 2004)................................................................................................................. 13 Figure 3: Annual GDP growth in Azerbaijan during the period of 1991-2006 (World Bank, 2008) ........................................................................................................................................ 14 Figure 4: Distribution of populations with main disease groups in 2007 (Ministry of Health). .................................................................................................................................................. 19 Figure 5: The scale of desertification of Caspian region (Caspian Environment Programme 2002). ....................................................................................................................................... 20 Figure 6: The amount of harmful substances released to the atmosphere from 1990-2002 (in thousand tons) (State Statistical Committee. Statistical Yearbook. 2002) ............................... 21 Figure 7: The amount of harmful substances released to the atmosphere from the sources in 2006 (In thousand tons) (Ministry of Ecology and Natural resources of Azerbaijan Republic 2006). ....................................................................................................................................... 22 Figure 8: Environmental degradation in Azerbaijan (UNEP/GRID 2004) .............................. 23 Figure 9: Trend of oil exports in Azerbaijan from 2003 to 2007 (State Statistic Committee of Azerbaijan Republic 2007) ...................................................................................................... 28 Figure 10: DDT in coastal sediments from the Caspian Sea (Stephen de Mora 2004) ........... 33 Figure 11: Scale of the pollutants discharged to the Caspian Sea by the littoral states (Vital Caspian graphics) ..................................................................................................................... 34 Figure 12: Variations in the water level of the Caspian Sea according to instrumental observations, 1840-2004 (Source: Klige, 1992) ...................................................................... 35 Figure 13: Pictures of the hard copies of newspapers.............................................................. 57 Figure 14: Example of a picture of the article taken to the digital camera. ............................. 58 Figure 15: Circulation of Major Newspapers in Soviet Union (In millions ) (Richter 1993 ) 59 Figure 16: Total number of Caspian Sea related articles per each newspaper during 1986- 2008 (Azerbaijan - 1993-2008; Izvestiia - 1986-1991) ........................................................... 62 Figure 17: Total number of articles from four newspapers during the years 1986-2008 (“Azerbaijan” 1993-2008, Izvestiia 1986-1991). ..................................................................... 63 Figure 18: Total share of the Caspian sea atricles framed as environmental, economic and III political. ................................................................................................................................... 63 Figure 19: Total percentage of themes from four newspapers within the years of 1986-2008. .................................................................................................................................................. 64 Figure 20: Total distribution of the themes during the years 1986-2008. ................................ 66 Figure 21: The total of environment based Caspian Sea articles per location. ........................ 72 Figure 22: The total share of environmental framed Caspian Sea articles by location during the years 1986-2008. ................................................................................................................ 72 Figure 23: The total of economic based Caspian Sea articles per location. ............................. 73 Figure 24: The total share of economic framed Caspian Sea articles by location during the years 1986-2008 ....................................................................................................................... 73 Figure 25: The total of political based Caspian Sea articles by location per each year. .......... 74 Figure 26: The total share of political framed Caspian Sea articles by location during the years 1986-2008. ...................................................................................................................... 75 Figure 27: Weighted average of the environmental, economic and political framed articles of four newspapers during the years 1986-2008. ......................................................................... 75 Figure 28: The frequency of general environmental articles during the years 1986-2008. ..... 78 Figure 29: Total percentage of main themes of environmental articles appeared within the years 1986-2008. ...................................................................................................................... 83 Figure 30: Distribution of pollution related articles by the years from 1986-2008. ................ 84 Figure 31: Distribution of the articles related with biodiversity damage during the years 1986- 2008.......................................................................................................................................... 86 Figure 32: Distribution of the articles related with green activities during the years 1986-2008. .................................................................................................................................................. 87 Figure 33: Distribution of the articles related with global environmental problems during the years 1986-2008. ...................................................................................................................... 87 Figure 34: Distribution of the articles related with clean sources during the years 1986-2008. .................................................................................................................................................
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