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Research in Social Problems and Public Policy
Disaster by Design: The Aral Sea and its Lessons for Sustainability
ISBN: 978-1-78190-375-9, eISBN: 978-1-78190-376-6
ISSN: 0196-1152
Publication date: 29 November 2012
Citation
(2012), "Research in Social Problems and Public Policy", 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, p. iii. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0196-1152(2012)0000020046
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Copyright © 2012, Emerald Group Publishing Limited
- Disaster by Design: The Aral Sea and its Lessons for Sustainability
- Research in Social Problems and Public Policy
- Research in Social Problems and Public Policy
- Copyright Page
- List of Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Maps of Uzbekistan and the Greater Aral Sea Region
- List of Tables and Figures
- List of maps
- Preface
- Section one The Multiple Disasters of the Aral Sea
- An Overview of the Aral Sea Disaster
- Going with the Flow: Economic Impacts from the Overuse of Irrigation
- Pollution and Salinization: Compounding the Aral Sea Disaster
- Death and Rebirth Island: Secrets in the U.S.S.R.’S Culture of Contamination
- Potential Climate and Hydrological Changes in the Aral Sea Region
- The Significance of Being Downstream: Uzbek Concerns Over the Rogun Dam
- Section Two The Aral Disaster in Historical Perspective
- A Last Movement for a Lost Sea
- Aral Sea Analogs in the American West
- Disaster by Design: The Multiple Caused Catastrophes of the Aral Sea
- Section Three Cotton, Cotton Everywhere, But not a Drop to Drink: Agriculture as the Villain
- What went Wrong: The Case of Un-Ecological Agriculture
- The Nonarable Aral: Loss of Productivity in Uzbek Agriculture
- Cotton in our Ears: Water, Agriculture, and Climatic Change in the Post Aral Context
- Water Footprints: Integrated Water Resource Management to the Rescue in the Aral Sea Basin
- Section Four Adapting to Catastrophe: Cascading Social Impacts of the Aral Sea Disaster
- The Tragedy of the Aral: Counting on Cotton, a Region Loses its People
- Reflections on Growing Up in the Karakalpakstan Region
- An Unhealthy Place to Live: Prioritizing Public Health and Addressing Environmental Contamination in Karakalpakstan
- A Physician's Observations of Karakalpak Health
- Ecological Change in the Aral Region: Adaptations by the Spoonbill and Black-Crowned Night Heron
- Environmental Change as a Threat to the Khorezm Heritage
- Whose Disaster is it Anyway? Romancing the World Heritage Status in Uzbekistan
- Section Five:Designing Solutions: Social, Ecological and Technological Approaches
- New Thinking and New Approaches: A Bioregional Response to the Lost Aral Sea
- Renewable Social Energy: Mahalla
- Clearing the Pipes: Providing Potable Water through Well Restoration
- Renewing with Renewables: Direct Solar Energy Use in Developing Countries
- Getting the Salt Out: Innovative Solar Technologies for Rural Clean Water
- Renewable Energy as a Key Factor for Sustainable Development in Uzbekistan
- Permaculture Restoration of the Aral Sea Watershed
- Section Six Lessons of the Aral Sea Disaster: Implications for Social Learning
- Aral Sea Demise as a Dry Run for Climate Change: From Cumulative to Cascading Impacts
- Highlands-to-Sea Cooperation in the Aral Sea Basin: Linking or Sinking?
- About the Authors