Disaster by Design: The Aral Sea and its Lessons for Sustainability - Couverture rigide

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ISBN 10 : 1781903751 ISBN 13 : 9781781903759

Editeur : Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2012

Synopsis

Disaster by Design: The Aral Sea, Lessons for Sustainability addresses the impacts of the Aral Sea disaster. The virtual disappearance of what was the world's fourth largest inland body of water was neither natural nor accidental. It was the result of deliberate policy decisions. The sea's disappearance is hardly the entire disaster. Instead, we find an accumulation of cascading effects, beginning with the decision to grow cotton, reached remotely in Moscow that altered the farming practices surrounding the Aral Sea. Unsustainable choices resulted in soil salinization, water pollution and toxic blowing sands, impacting the entire bioregion and beyond. A remote island was used to test biological weapons. Uzbekistan, most notably Karakalpakstan, was the autonomous republic at the epicenter of the disaster. Sustainable prospects exist, including renewable energy, permaculture and strengthening the social fabric amidst poverty and ecological collapse. This volume of Research in Social Problems and Public Policy is essential reading for everyone concerned with averting environmental disaster and instead creating livable, sustainable communities. Disaster by Design is a clarion call and an insightful study of Central Asia today.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Research in Social Problems and Public Policy is a peer-reviewed book series whose focus is on the analysis of the potential failure of public institutions to fulfil their obligations to the broader society. Today most of the "social problems" in a typical textbook will be those experienced by groups that are relatively low in power - the poor, members of racial and ethnic minorities, women, the aged, the unemployed - and those involving the behaviors of persons who depart most sharply from expectations for "normal" behavior, as in the case of criminals, drug users, and those who suffer from mental illness. Research in Social Problems and Public Policy is less interested in reinforcing these past tendencies than in overcoming them. The series is devoted to the sharpening and reshaping of scientific discourse in the area of inquiry implied by its title, involving the intersection of social problems and public policy. In particular, it is interested in the analysis of the potential failure of public institutions to fulfil their obligations to the broader society.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Emerald Group Publishing Limited
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1781903751
• ISBN 13: 9781781903759
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 300
• Éditeur: Edelstein Michael R., Cerny Astrid, Gadaev Abror
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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