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Creeping environmental problems and sustainable development in the Aral Sea basin

This multidisciplinary 1999 book comprehensively describes one of the worst human-made environmental catastrophes of the twentieth century: the slow onset of incremental changes which affected the Aral Sea region and its peoples. It provides an important example of how to approach such disasters for students and researchers of environmental studies, global change, political science and history.
Print Book, English, 2008
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2008
xii, 291 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780521081382, 0521081386
232712862
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.
Originally published: 1999