Creeping Environmental Problems and Sustainable Development in the Aral Sea Basin

Fine: flawless; the binding is square and secure; the text is clean. Free of creased or dog-eared pages in the text. Free of any underlining, hi-lighting or marginalia or marks in the text. Free of ownership names, dates, addresses, notations, inscriptions, stamps, or labels. A like-new copy, structurally sound and tightly bound, showing no discernible imperfections. Bright and clean. Corners sharp. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. Large 8vo (10 x 7 x 0.75 inches). Profusely illustrated with graphs, tables, maps and other figures. Language: English. Weight: 27 ounces. Pictorial boards with red and blue titles at the front panel and back-strip. Hardcover: No DJ as issued. 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. ; Large 8vo 8" - 9" tall; xii, 291 pages 1st English Language 1st Edition; First Printing.…