Creeping Environmental Problems and Sustainable Development in the Aral Sea Basin

edited by Michael H. Glantz, fl. 1992 (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2004, originally published 1999), 305 page(s)

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Abstract / Summary: 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.
Field of Interest: Global Issues
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Content Type: General reference book
Duration: 0 sec
Warning: Contains explicit content: No
Format: Text
Original Publication Date: 1999
Page Count: 305
Publication Year: 2004
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Place Published / Released: Cambridge, England
Subject: Global Issues, Social Sciences, Environment and Ecological Issues, Sustainability, Aral Sea, Water resources development, Environmental disasters, Lakes, Ecology, Kazajistán, Cazaquistão, Uzbequistão, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Northern Uzbek, Russians, Kazakh, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
Keywords and Translated Subjects: Kazajistán, Cazaquistão, Uzbequistão