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Environment and post-Soviet transformation in Kazakhstans Aral Sea region: sea changes. /

The Aral Sea is well known for its devastating regression over the second half of the twentieth century, and for its recent partial restoration. Environment and Post-Soviet Transformation in Kazakhstan's Aral Sea Region is the first book to explore what these monumental changes have meant to th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wheeler, William
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : UCL Press, 2021.
Colección:Economic exposures in Asia
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Series Page
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • List of Maps
  • Acknowledgements
  • Note on Transliteration
  • Glossary and Abbreviations
  • Maps
  • Introduction
  • 1 The Aral Sea and the Modernisation of Central Asia: A Century of Catastrophes
  • 2 Seeing Like a Bureaucrat: Problems of Living Standards and Employment
  • 3 Ocean Fish, State Socialism and Nostalgia in Aral'sk
  • 4 Rupture and Continuity in Aral Fishing Villages
  • 5 From Soviet Ruins: Flounder, the Kökaral Dam and the Return of the Small Aral Sea
  • 6 Zander and Social Change in Bögen
  • 7 Aral'sk Today: Fish, Money, Ekologiia
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix: Sources for Fish Catches, 1905-80
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • Back Cover