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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Glantz, Michael H.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: 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.