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 ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
1999.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction / Michael H. Glantz
- 1. Sustainable development and creeping environmental problems in the Aral Sea region / Michael H. Glantz
- 2. Ecological disaster linked to landscape composition changes in the Aral Sea basin / 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 fluctuations and change in the Aral Sea basin within the last 50 years / Alexander N. Zolotokrylin
- 6. Priaralye ecosystems and creeping environmental changes in the Aral Sea / Nina M. Novikova
- 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 basin / Iliya Zholdasova
- 11. Creeping environmental changes in the Karakum Canal's zone of impact / Nikolai S. Orlovsky
- 12. Environmental changes in the Uzbek part of the Aral Sea basin / Anatoly N. Krutov
- 13. Creeping changes in biological communities in the Aral Sea / Nikolai V. Aladin.