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Creeping Environmental Problems and Sustainable Development in the Aral Sea Basin.
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 multidisciplina...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
1999.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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 1999 book comprehensively describes 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 societ. |
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| Notas: | Changes in the tugai forest and bush ecosystems. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (305 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9780511050305 0511050305 9780511535970 051153597X 9780521620864 0521620864 9780521081382 0521081386 |