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Author: Philip Micklin
Date: 28 Sep 2011
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
Language: English
Book Format: Paperback::186 pages
ISBN10: 3642647367
ISBN13: 9783642647369
Imprint: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K
Dimension: 155x 235x 10.92mm::318g
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Download book from ISBN number The Aral Sea Basin. Aral Sea basin: a sea dies, a sea also rises. Glantz MH(1). Author information: (1)Center for Capacity Building, US National Center for Atmospheric Research, Irrigation is highly developed in the Aral Sea basin. In 2010, irrigation networks covered 8.1 million ha here and accounted for 84 % of all water can strengthen economic and political ties in the region. Interventions in the Aral Sea basin's water cycle became impossible to ignore. The Aral Sea Basin: Water for Sustainable Development in Central Asia - CRC Press Book This book offers the first multidisciplinary overview of water resources issues and management in the Aral Sea Basin, covering both the Amu Darya and Syr Darya River Basins. The Aral Sea Basin is considered a disaster zone many. Demands on the watershed for irrigation and other purposes have overdrawn water resources. The Aral Sea is situated in Central Asia, between the Southern part of Kazakhstan and Northern Uzbekistan. The Soviet government decided in the 1960s to divert those rivers so that they could irrigate the desert region surrounding the Sea in order to favor agriculture rather than supply the Aral Sea basin. The two major river basins in the Aral Sea basin are the Amu Darya in the south and the Syr Darya in the north. A third river basin, the Tedzhen-Murghab basin, is located in the southwest. However, today, many of the tributaries only flow seasonally drying up before reaching the main rivers. Aral Sea, a once-large saltwater lake of Central Asia. Half of the 20th century when the region was part of the Soviet Union and continued into the 21st. The two rivers and the sea and the land surrounding them have now become the A large harvest is at risk: irrigated land in the Aral Sea basin Disaster Design: The Aral Sea and its Lessons for Sustainability | Editors: Michael Highlands-to-Sea Cooperation in the Aral Sea Basin: Linking or Sinking? Conflict Over Water in the Aral Sea. Type of conflict main. Intensity 3. Region Environmental degradation of the Aral Sea in Central Asia has caused a loss of Dust plumes rose from desiccated lakebed sediments of the Aral Sea in late March 2010. Source: Flickr User NASA Goddard Space Flight In the 1960s, the Aral Sea region used to support a thriving fishing industry. Even earlier, the Amu Darya and Syr Darya river basins, which The rich waters of the Aral Sea basin once supported an incredible array of more than 300 bird species. White Pelicans bred in the reedy freshwater of the deltas This article traces the historical development of water resource management in Central Asia, focusing on the causes of the cur- rent Aral Sea Basin crisis. This book offers the first multidisciplinary overview of water resources issues and management in the Aral Sea Basin, covering both the Amu Darya and Syr The Aral Sea Basin Crisis and Sustainable Water Resource Management in Central Asia The Central Asian economy became highly vulnerable to climate change and environmental conditions from year to year, and, the 1990s, cotton yields were severely declining The Aral Sea Basin has seen several efforts to develop transboundary water resources management. However, despite cooperative actions disputes have International Water Law in the Aral Sea Basin: Process Properties. In: Promoting Transboundary Water Security in the Aral Sea Basin through Abstract Climatic and environmental changes in the Aral Sea Basin represent a climate change in the Aral Sea Basin at four scales: from the global to regional

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