Environmental Crises in Central Asia

From steppes to seas, from deserts to glaciers
Herausgeber: Freedman, Eric; Neuzil, Mark

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This multidisciplinary book highlights the major environmental challenges in the Caucasus and in Central Asia. These include the impact of climate change on glacial melt, desertification, deforestation, destruction of habitat and biodiversity, overfishing, radioactive and hazardous wastes, water quality and supply, energy exploration, air pollution, pesticide pollution and environmental diseases. All of these have implications that cross national borders and may affect economic, political and cultural relationships on a vast geographic scale. yet, the region's eight governments-most of them burdened by limited economic resources, weak civil society institutions and political authoritarianism rooted in their lengthy Soviet legacies-have shown little resolve to address these complex challenges.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 214
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. April 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 308g
• ISBN-13: 9781138597532
• ISBN-10: 1138597538
• Artikelnr.: 52612344

Autorenporträt

Eric Freedman, a Pulitzer Prize-winner, is Knight Chair and Director of the Knight Center for Environmental Journalism at Michigan State University, USA. Mark Neuzil is a professor of communication and journalism at University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minn., USA, where he teaches environmental communication, multimedia reporting, communication history, and communication ethics.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Examining the Terrain Part I: Climate Change 2. Less Water
from the Mountains? Consequences of Glacier Changes in Central Asia Part
II: Water 3. Increasing Human Security to Avert Water Wars in the Ferghana
Valley Part III: Energy 4. Energy Exploration and the Caspian Region:
Sturgeon, Seals, and Sulfur 5. The 'Great Future of the Country'? Dams and
Hydroelectricity Discourses in Kyrgyzstan Part IV: Public Policy and Mass
Media 6. Separating Environmental Myths from Realities in Central Asia 7.
Tajikistan: An Environmental Scan 8. Newspaper Coverage of Water and Other
Ecological Issues in Kazakhstan during Perestroika and Today 9. Western
News Coverage of Environmental Issues in Post-Soviet Central Asia Part V:
Environmental Health 10. Radiation Health Risk Studies Associated with
Nuclear Testing In Kazakhstan Part VI: Ecology 11. Kazakhstan's Northern
Aral Sea Today: Partial Ecosystem Restoration and Economic Recovery 12.
Conservation and Multipurpose Management of the Unique Walnut-fruit Forests
of Southern Kyrgyzstan 13. Ecologically-based Integrated Pest Management
Programs for Food Security Crops in Central Asia 14. A Treasure in the
Desert? Carbon Stock Estimates for Haloxylon aphyllum in the Northeastern
Karakum Desert 15. Conclusion: Through the Crystal Ball