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Environmental Crises in Central Asia: From steppes to seas, from deserts to glaciers
Contributor(s): Freedman, Eric (Editor), Neuzil, Mark (Editor)
ISBN: 1138824844     ISBN-13: 9781138824843
Publisher: Routledge
OUR PRICE:   $161.50  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: November 2015
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BISAC Categories:
- Business & Economics | Development - Sustainable Development
- Political Science | Public Policy - Environmental Policy
- Science | Environmental Science (see Also Chemistry - Environmental)
Dewey: 363.700
LCCN: 2015019924
Series: Routledge Studies in Environmental Communication and Media
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6.2" W x 9.2" (1 lbs) 196 pages
 
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Environmental conditions do not exist in a vacuum. They are influenced by science, politics, history, public policy, culture, economics, public attitudes, and competing priorities, as well as past human decisions. In the case of Central Asia, such Soviet-era decisions include irrigation systems and physical infrastructure that are now crumbling, mine tailings that leach pollutants into soil and groundwater, and abandoned factories that are physically decrepit and contaminated with toxic chemicals.

Environmental Crises in Central Asia highlights major environmental challenges confronting the region's former Soviet republics: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. They include threats to the Caspian and Aral seas, the impact of climate change on glaciers, desertification, deforestation, destruction of habitat and biodiversity, radioactive and hazardous wastes, water quality and supply, energy exploration and development, pesticides and food security, and environmental health. The ramifications of these challenges cross national borders and may affect economic, political, and cultural relationships on a vast geographic scale. At the same time, the region's five governments have demonstrated little resolve to address these complex challenges.

This book is a valuable multi-disciplinary resource for academics, scholars, and policymakers in environmental sciences, geography, political science, natural resources, mass communications, public health, and economics.