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Creeping Environmental Problems and Sustainable Development in the Aral Sea Basin

Edited By: Michael Glantz
320 pages, 1 b/w photo, 37 line illus, 58 tabs
Creeping Environmental Problems and Sustainable Development in the Aral Sea Basin
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  • Creeping Environmental Problems and Sustainable Development in the Aral Sea Basin ISBN: 9780521081382 Paperback Sep 2008 Not in stock: Usually dispatched within 6 days
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About this book

Environmental degradation in the Aral Sea basin has been a touchstone for increasing public awareness of environmental issues. The Aral crisis has been touted as a `quiet Chernobyl' and as one of the worst human-made environmental catastrophes of the twentieth century. This multidisciplinary book is the first to comprehensively describe the slow onset of low grade but incremental changes (i.e. creeping environmental change) which affected the region and its peoples.

Through a set of case studies, it describes how the region's decision-makers allowed these changes to grow into an environmental and societal nightmare. It outlines many lessons to be learned for other areas undergoing detrimental creeping environmental change, and provides an important example of how to approach such disasters for students and researchers of environmental studies, global change, political science and history.

Paperback re-issue; originally published in 1999.

Contents

Introduction Michael Glantz; 1. Sustainable development and creeping environmental problems in the Aral Sea region Michael Glantz; 2. Changes of landscape composition of the Aral Sea Basin in connection with ecological disaster Elisabeth A. Vostokova; 3. Alteration of water level and salinity of the Aral Sea Vitalyi N. Bortnik; 4. Desertification in the Aral Sea region Asomitdin A. Rafikov; 5. Climate fluctuation and change in the Aral Sea Basin within the last 50 years Alexsander N. Zolotokrylin; 6. Priaralye ecosystems and creeping environmental changes in the Aral Sea Nina M. Mozikova; 7. Public health in the Aral Sea coastal region and the dynamics of changes in the ecological situation Leonid I. Elpiner; 8. The impact of political ideology on creeping environmental changes in the Aral Sea Basin Igor S. Zonn; 9. Change of the rivers' flow in the Aral Sea Basin (in connection with the problem of quantitative assessment and consideration of environmental after-effects) K. V. Tsytsenko and V. V. Sumarokova; 10. Fish population as an ecosystem component and economic object in the Aral Sea Iliya Zholdasova; 11. Creeping environmental changes in the Karakum Canal's zone of impact Nikolay S. Orlovsky; 12. Environmental changes in the Uzbek part of the Aral Sea Basin Anatolyi Krutov; 13. Creeping changes in biological communities in the Aral Sea N.V. Aladin; Index.

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Edited By: Michael Glantz
320 pages, 1 b/w photo, 37 line illus, 58 tabs
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The book is highly recommended worldwide to everyone interested in the human dimensions of environmental change because it perfectly illustrates the human causes and impacts that sometimes creepingly turn into a human-induced ecological catastrophe. Environment
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