ENVIRONMENTAL CRISES: GEOGRAPHICAL CASE STUDIES POST-SOCIALIST EURASIA
Written by Tatyana Saiko
Published by Prentice-Hall
in 2001
ISBN: 0582356954
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ENVIRONMENTAL CRISES: GEOGRAPHICAL CASE STUDIES POST-SOCIALIST EURASIA
Written by Tatyana Saiko.
Stock no. 1710829
1st.
2001.
Softcover.
Slightly better than very good condition.
Providing students with an in-depth of contemporary, geographical and historical understanding of the causes, magnitude and implications of the different types of environmental crises in the countries of the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. Cardwraps. B/w diagrams, maps and photos. xvi and 320 pages including index. ISBN: 0582356954. Spine sunned (green). Name in ink to front endpaper. Else contents clean.
Front cover
Contents
- 1. The conceptual framework
- 2. The Arctic North: intensive industrial development in the Russian tundra
- 3. Lake Baikal: a unique ecosystem under threat in the Siberian taiga
- 4.The Moscow region: complex problems of Europe's major conurbation
- 5. Chernobyl: the world's worst nuclear accident
- 6. The 'Black Triangle' of Central Europe: air pollution comes under control?
- 7. Kalmkia: the first anthropogenic desert in Europe
- 8. The Volga basin: a massive degradation of ecosystems
- 9. The Caspian Sea region: inter-state problems of a shared water body
- 10. Desiccation of the Aral Sea: the hidden costs of irrigation
- Conclusion