The Aral Sea Basin, which is located in the central Asian part of the former Soviet Union, is undergoing dramatically rapid and intense environmental change. Pe

A long environmental history of the Aral Sea region, focusing on colonization and development in Russian and Soviet Central Asia.

The book is structured into six core parts. The first part sets the scene and explains how the use of Aral basin water resources, primarily used for irrigation,

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

There are incentive indications that the growth of human population, the increasing use and abuse of natural resources combined with climate changes (probably d