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The Aral Sea encyclopedia /
The situation of the Aral Sea is known as one of the worst man-made environmental crises of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Many have seen the satellite photos evidencing the startling shrinkage and deterioration of the sea, as it was a few decades ago and how it appears today. Whereas the...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin ; London :
Springer,
2009.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | The situation of the Aral Sea is known as one of the worst man-made environmental crises of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Many have seen the satellite photos evidencing the startling shrinkage and deterioration of the sea, as it was a few decades ago and how it appears today. Whereas the Aral Sea was the world's fourth-largest inland body of water in 1960, it has now shrunk to a small fraction of that within three increasingly saline and polluted parts, primarily due to the diversion of waters for agricultural irrigation. ""The Aral Sea Encyclopedia"" is devoted to the remarkable page |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-284). |
| ISBN: | 9783540850885 3540850880 3540850864 9783540850861 |