Creeping Environmental Problems and Sustainable Development in the Aral Sea Basin - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0521620864 ISBN 13 : 9780521620864

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 1999

Synopsis

Comprehensively describes this major environmental catastrophe for graduate students and researchers of environmental studies, global change, political science and history.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

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.

Revue de presse

"The book is highly recommended worldwide to everyone interested in the human dimensions of environmental change because it perfectly illustrates the human causes and impacts that sometimes creepingly turn into a human-induced ecological catastrophe." Environment

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 1999
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0521620864
• ISBN 13: 9780521620864
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 304
• Éditeur: Glantz Michael
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: Avery; https://www.avery.fr/; ; chemin des peupliers 27; Dardilly; France