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Environmental crises in Central Asia : from steppes to seas, from deserts to glaciers / edited by Eric Freedman and Mark Neuzi.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Routledge studies in environmental communication and media.
- Routledge Studies in Environmental Communication and Media
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Environmental degradation--Asia, Central.
- Environmental degradation.
- Environmental protection--Asia, Central.
- Environmental protection.
- Environmental policy--Asia, Central.
- Environmental policy.
- Nature--Effect of human beings on--Asia, Central.
- Nature.
- Environmental health--Asia, Central.
- Environmental health.
- Asia, Central--Environmental conditions.
- Asia, Central.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (215 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2016.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- pt. I. Climate change
- pt. II. Water
- pt. III. Energy
- pt. IV. Public policy and mass media
- pt. V. Environmental health
- pt. VI. Ecology.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-315-82484-1
- 1-317-83609-X
- 1-317-83608-1
- 9781315824840
- OCLC:
- 958098730
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