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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 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
- 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.
- 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).
- 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.
- 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.