Environment and post-Soviet transformation in Kazakhstans Aral Sea region : sea changes. / William Wheeler.
The Aral Sea is well known for its devastating regression over the second half of the twentieth century, and for its recent partial restoration. Environment and Post-Soviet Transformation in Kazakhstan's Aral Sea Region is the first book to explore what these monumental changes have meant to th...
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London :
UCL Press,
2021.
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| Series: | Economic exposures in Asia.
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| Online Access: | JSTOR Open Access |
Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Series Page
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Maps
- Acknowledgements
- Note on Transliteration
- Glossary and Abbreviations
- Maps
- Introduction
- 1 The Aral Sea and the Modernisation of Central Asia: A Century of Catastrophes
- 2 Seeing Like a Bureaucrat: Problems of Living Standards and Employment
- 3 Ocean Fish, State Socialism and Nostalgia in Aral'sk
- 4 Rupture and Continuity in Aral Fishing Villages
- 5 From Soviet Ruins: Flounder, the Kökaral Dam and the Return of the Small Aral Sea
- 6 Zander and Social Change in Bögen
- 7 Aral'sk Today: Fish, Money, Ekologiia
- Conclusion
- Appendix: Sources for Fish Catches, 1905-80
- Bibliography
- Index
- Back Cover.