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Author | : Philip Micklin |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 239 |
Release | : 2013-04-18 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 3642611826 |
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The Aral Sea Basin, which is located in the central Asian part of the former Soviet Union, is undergoing dramatically rapid and intense environmental change. Pervasive human misuse and overuse of its water, land, and other critical natural resources have led to severe degradation of key ecological systems. This book analyses the environmental, human and economic problems that have arisen and presents recommendations for future research needs. Primary focus is on the drying of the Aral Sea, but related issues of diminished river flow, land and water pollution, and degradation, ecosystem deterioration, and adverse effects on humans are also examined.
Author | : William Wheeler |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2021 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781800080379 |
Download Environment and Post-Soviet Transformation in Kazakhstan's Aral Sea Region Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Environment and Post-Soviet Transformation in Kazakhstan's Aral Sea Region explores how the sea's retreat and partial return has impacted the lives of people living in the area.
Author | : Andrey G. Kostianoy |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 2010-02-26 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 3540882766 |
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With remarkable vision, Prof. Otto Hutzinger initiated The Handbook of Envir- mental Chemistry in 1980 and became the founding Editor-in-Chief. At that time, environmental chemistry was an emerging ?eld, aiming at a complete description of the Earth’s environment, encompassing the physical, chemical, biological, and geological transformations of chemical substances occurring on a local as well as a global scale. Environmental chemistry was intended to provide an account of the impact of man’s activities on the natural environment by describing observed changes. While a considerable amount of knowledge has been accumulated over the last three decades, as re?ected in the more than 70 volumes of The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry, there are still many scienti?c and policy challenges ahead due to the complexity and interdisciplinary nature of the ?eld. The series will therefore continue to provide compilations of current knowledge. Contri- tions are written by leading experts with practical experience in their ?elds. The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry grows with the increases in our scienti?c understanding, and provides a valuable source not only for scientists but also for environmental managers and decision-makers. Today, the series covers a broad range of environmental topics from a chemical perspective, including methodol- ical advances in environmental analytical chemistry.
Author | : Michael R. Edelstein |
Publisher | : Emerald Group Publishing |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2012-11-27 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 178190376X |
Download Disaster by Design Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This volume addresses the impacts of the Aral Sea disaster; disappearance of what was the world's fourth largest inland body of water. It argues this was the result of deliberate policy decisions. This volume is essential reading for everyone concerned with averting environmental disaster and in creating livable, sustainable communities.
Author | : Jacques C.J. Nihoul |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 2004-02-29 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9781402019012 |
Download Dying and Dead Seas Climatic Versus Anthropic Causes Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
There are incentive indications that the growth of human population, the increasing use and abuse of natural resources combined with climate changes (probably due to anthropic pollution, to some extent) exert a considerable stress on closed (or semi-enclosed) seas and lakes. In many regions of the world, marine and lacustrine hydrosystems are (or have been) the object of severe or fatal alterations, from changes in regional hydrological regimes and/or modifications of the quantity or the quality of water resources associated with (natural or man-made) land reclamation, deterioration of geochemical balances (increased salinity, oxygen's depletion .. . ), mutations of ecosystems (eutrophication, dramatic decrease in biological diversity ... ) to geological disturbances and to the socio-economic perturbations which have been - or may be in the near future - the consequences of them. Seas and lakes are dying all over the world and some may be regarded as already dead and there is an urgent need to try to understand how this is happening and identify the causes of the observed mutations, weighing the relative effects of climatic evolution and anthropic interferences. This book is the outcome of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop, held in Liege in May 2003. The Workshop was organized at th the University of Liege as a follow on meeting to the 35 International Liege Colloquium on Ocean Dynamics, dedicated in 2003 to Dying and Dead Seas. The book contains the synthesis of the lectures given by 16 main speakers during the ARW.
Author | : Philip Micklin |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 454 |
Release | : 2013-11-22 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 3642023568 |
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The book is structured into six core parts. The first part sets the scene and explains how the use of Aral basin water resources, primarily used for irrigation, have destroyed the Aral Sea. The team explains how spheres and events interact and the related problems. Part 2 examines the social consequences of the ecological catastrophe and the affect of the Aral Sea desiccation on cultural and economic conditions of near Aral region. Part 3 explores the scientific causes of the destruction using detailed analyses and data plus some of their own research spanning aquatic biology, terrestrial biology, hydrology, water management and biodiversity. They also share some of the latest archaeological discoveries and paleobotanical analysis to delineate past levels and characteristics of the Aral Sea. There is particular focus on modern remote sensing and GIS techniques and how they can monitor the Aral Sea and the environment. Part 4 discusses regional and international initiatives to mitigate human and ecological problems of the Aral Sea and the wider political and economic consequences. With thorough insight of the total environment cost, the final chapters of the book will provide lessons for the future. There are insightful case studies throughout. Multidisciplinary by nature, all titles in our new reference book series will explore significant changes within the Earth’s ecosystems and to some extent, and will tackle ways to think about our changing environment.
Author | : Igor S. Zonn |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 285 |
Release | : 2009-02-08 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 3540850880 |
Download The Aral Sea Encyclopedia Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The ‘‘Aral Sea Encyclopedia’’ is the first one in the new series of encyclopedias about the seas of the former Soviet Union. Preparing it we faced certain difficulties. The thing is that this encyclopedia is a monument to the sea that is disappearing during our lifetime. The world community considers the situation with the Aral Sea and all changes that occurred in its whereabouts in the recent decades as one of the most serious, if not disastrous anthropogenic environmental crises of the 20th century. Before 1960, this was a water-abundant sea-lake that was fourth among world lakes after the Caspian Sea (USSR, Iran), the Great Lakes (USA, Canada) and Victoria Lake (Africa). This was a real ‘‘pearl’’ among the sands of the largest deserts, the Karakums and the Kyzylkums. Navigation between the sea ports Muinak and Aralsk and fisheries famous for the Aral breams, barbells, sturgeons, shemaya, and others were developed here. One could find beautiful recreational zones and beaches here. The deltas of the Amudarya, the major river of Central Asia, and the Syrdarya bringing their waters into the Aral Sea were famous for their biodiversity, fishery, muskrat rearing, reed prod- tion. The local population found occupations related to the water infrastructure.
Author | : Maya K. Peterson |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 423 |
Release | : 2019-05-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108475477 |
Download Pipe Dreams Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A long environmental history of the Aral Sea region, focusing on colonization and development in Russian and Soviet Central Asia.
Author | : Michael Glantz |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 307 |
Release | : 1999-05-13 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1139429418 |
Download Creeping Environmental Problems and Sustainable Development in the Aral Sea Basin Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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 multidisciplinary 1999 book comprehensively describes the slow onset of low grade but incremental changes (i.e. creeping environmental change) which affected the region and its peoples. Through a set of case studies, it describes how the region's decision-makers allowed these changes to grow into an environmental and societal nightmare. It outlines many lessons to be learned for other areas undergoing detrimental creeping environmental change, and provides an important example of how to approach such disasters for students and researchers of environmental studies, global change, political science and history.
Author | : Erika Weinthal |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780262731461 |
Download State Making and Environmental Cooperation Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A study of the relationship between environmental cooperation and state building in post-Soviet Central Asia.