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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...
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1999.
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| 100 | 1 | |a Glantz, Michael H. | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Creeping Environmental Problems and Sustainable Development in the Aral Sea Basin. |
| 260 | |a Cambridge : |b Cambridge University Press, |c 1999. | ||
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| 505 | 0 | |a Cover; Half-title; Dedication; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; CONTRIBUTORS; INTRODUCTION; Note on Russian names; Acknowledgments; 1 Sustainable development and creeping environmental problems in the Aral Sea region; Introduction to the notion of creeping environmental problems; Thresholds; Why do CEPs continue?; Creeping environmental problems in the Aral Sea basin; EXPANSION OF COTTON ACREAGE; SEA LEVEL DECLINE; DECREASING FLOWS OF THE AMUDARYA AND SYRDARYA INTO THE SEA; DECLINING WATER QUALITY IN THE RIVERS AND IN THE SEA; DEGRADATION OF DELTA ECOSYSTEMS. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a DECLINE OF FISH POPULATIONS IN THE ARAL SEAINCREASES IN HUMAN DISEASES; CRISIS AWARENESS; Timely responses to CEPs: What can be done?; Regional organizations in Central Asia: five heads are better than one; HOW IMPORTANT IS THE ARAL SEA ANYWAY? ; 'I HAVE MET THE ENEMY AND HE IS US!'; Conclusion: Steps decision-makers can take now to encourage sustainable resource management in the Aral Sea basin; References; 2 Ecological disaster linked to landscape composition changes in the Aral Sea basin; Concluding comments; References; 3 Alteration of water level and salinity of the Aral Sea. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Background up to the twentieth centuryEvents after 1900; REGIONAL AND GOVERNMENT PLANNING; Changes in the 1960s and 1970s; REACTION TO THE PROBLEM; Changes after the 1970s; ACTION FOLLOWING REALIZATION OF THE CRISIS; Present situation; Conclusion; References; 4 Desertification in the Aral Sea region; Scale of desertification; Factors influencing desertification development; Desertification in the delta plains of the Aral Sea region; Stages of desertification development; Development of desertification under eluvial conditions (1978-82). | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Development of desertification in combination with eluvial and waterlogging conditions (1983-95)Main stages of desertification development on the dried-out Aral Sea bottom; Trends of desertification development; Aerospace monitoring of desertification; References; 5 Climate fluctuations and change in the Aral Sea basin within the last 50 years; Introduction; Natural changes of climate; CIRCULATION FACTORS OF CLIMATE CHANGE; EPOCHS OF ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; TRENDS OF ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION IN THE PERIOD OF THE ARAL SEA CRISIS; CHANGES OF AIR TEMPERATURE AND PRECIPITATION. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a THE RELATIONSHIP OF TEMPERATURE AND PRECIPITATION CHANGES TO CHANGES IN ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATIONHUMAN-INDUCED CHANGES OF LOCAL CLIMATES; Conclusion; THRESHOLD 1: AWARENESS OF CHANGES; THRESHOLD 2: AWARENESS OF PROBLEM; THRESHOLD 3: AWARENESS OF CRISIS; THRESHOLD 4: REALIZATION OF THE NEED FOR ACTION; THRESHOLD 5: ACTION; References; 6 Priaralye ecosystems and creeping environmental changes in the Aral Sea; Introduction; The Aral Sea as an ecological factor; Natural ecosystem stability; Methods and techniques; Changes in the Amudarya and Syrdarya deltas. | |
| 500 | |a Changes in the tugai forest and bush ecosystems. | ||
| 520 | |a 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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