Section Two The Aral Disaster in Historical Perspective
Disaster by Design: The Aral Sea and its Lessons for Sustainability
ISBN: 978-1-78190-375-9, eISBN: 978-1-78190-376-6
Publication date: 29 November 2012
Abstract
Having established multiple disasters now radiating from the core loss of the Aral Sea, we turn to the volume's theme of Disaster by Design in Section Two. Neither the trunk nor the branches was a natural process; all took root in the hands of humans intent on altering nature to serve humans.
Citation
Edelstein, M.R. (2012), "Section Two The Aral Disaster in Historical Perspective", Edelstein, M.R., Cerny, A. and Gadaev, A. (Ed.) Disaster by Design: The Aral Sea and its Lessons for Sustainability (Research in Social Problems and Public Policy, Vol. 20), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 75-76. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0196-1152(2012)0000020015
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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