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State making and environmental cooperation : linking domestic and international politics in Central Asia /

The Amu Darya and Syr Darya rivers of Central Asia flow across deserts to empty into the Aral Sea. Under Soviet rule, so much water was diverted from the rivers for agricultural purposes that salinity levels rapidly rose and the sea shrank. There was an upsurge in dust storms containing toxic salt r...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Weinthal, Erika
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2002.
Series:Global environmental accords.
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