The situation of the Aral Sea is known as one of the worst man-made environmental crises of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Many have seen the satellite photos evidencing the startling shrinkage and deterioration of the sea, as it was a few decades ago and how it appears today. Whereas the Aral Sea was the world’s fourth-largest inland body of water in 1960, it has now shrunk to a small fraction of that within three increasingly saline and polluted parts, primarily due to the diversion of waters for agricultural irrigation. The Aral Sea Encyclopaedia is devoted to the remarkable phenomenon of the possibility of Aral Sea’s imminent disappearance from the Earth in the time span of a single human generation. It first describes the sea before it started drying-out, and then the actions and efforts of the Central Asian countries, as well asthe international community, to mitigate the socioeconomic and environmental hazards caused by this desiccation and increasing salinity. First volume of Springer Series on encyclopaedias of the seas INDICE: Introduction.- A - Z.- List of geographical and hydrographical features extinct as a result of the Aral Sea desiccation.- References.
- ISBN: 978-3-540-85086-1
- Editorial: Springer
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 320
- Fecha Publicación: 01/10/2008
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés