Creeping Environmental Problems and Sustainable Development in the Aral Sea Basin Tapa dura - 1999

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Cambridge University Press, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Like New. Firm, square and tight with sturdy hinges, just showing a few minor rubs and some mild cosmetic wear. Hence a non-text page is stamped 'damaged'. Despite such this book is in nearly new condition. Thus the contents are crisp, fresh and clean. Offered for sale at a very sensible price.

Cambridge University Press, 1999. Large 8vo, pp xii, 291, pictorial boards, an extremely good copy indeed. [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.].… Leer más

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Cambridge University Press, 1999. Hardcover. New.

Cambridge University Press, 1999. Hardcover. New.

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