Download or read book Environmental Health in Central Asia written by Dilorom Fayzieva and published by Computational Mechanics. This book was released on 2004 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the last few years new directions in environmental health research have been successfully developed in the Central Asian republics. This volume contains a broad scientific review of possible influences of environmental conditions such as ambient air quality, water supply, sanitation, nutrition, and industrial and agricultural activity on the health of those living in the Aral Sea Basin. Promoting a better understanding of current environmental health problems in this region, the book includes the following chapters: ambient air quality and dust exposure; water quality, water supply and sanitation; industrial activity and health; epidemiological studies of non-infectious diseases; infectious diseases, microbiology and immunology; nutritional aspects; children's health; use of pesticides in agriculture and health effects; and strategies for the future.

Download or read book Environmental Crises in Central Asia written by Eric Freedman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-23 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Environmental conditions do not exist in a vacuum. They are influenced by science, politics, history, public policy, culture, economics, public attitudes, and competing priorities, as well as past human decisions. In the case of Central Asia, such Soviet-era decisions include irrigation systems and physical infrastructure that are now crumbling, mine tailings that leach pollutants into soil and groundwater, and abandoned factories that are physically decrepit and contaminated with toxic chemicals. Environmental Crises in Central Asia highlights major environmental challenges confronting the region’s former Soviet republics: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. They include threats to the Caspian and Aral seas, the impact of climate change on glaciers, desertification, deforestation, destruction of habitat and biodiversity, radioactive and hazardous wastes, water quality and supply, energy exploration and development, pesticides and food security, and environmental health. The ramifications of these challenges cross national borders and may affect economic, political, and cultural relationships on a vast geographic scale. At the same time, the region’s five governments have demonstrated little resolve to address these complex challenges. This book is a valuable multi-disciplinary resource for academics, scholars, and policymakers in environmental sciences, geography, political science, natural resources, mass communications, public health, and economics.

Download or read book Environment and Health in Central Asia written by Jennifer Sue Franz and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Environmental Humanities in Central Asia written by Jeanne Féaux de la Croix and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-08-30 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first collection to showcase the flourishing field of environmental humanities in Central Asia. A region larger than Europe, Central Asia possesses an astounding range of environments, from deserts to glaciated peaks. The volume brings into conversation scholarship from history to social anthropology, demonstrating the contribution that interdisciplinary and engaged research offers to many urgent issues in the region: from the history of conservationism to the tactics of environmental movements, from literary engagements with ‘pure nature’ to the impact of fossil fuel extraction. The collection focuses on the Central Asian republics of the former USSR, where a complex layering of nomadic and sedentary, Turkic and Persianate, Islamic and Soviet cultures ends up affecting human relations with distinct environments. Featuring state-of-the-art contributions, the book enquires into human-environment relations through a broad-brush typology of interactive modes: to extract, protect, enspirit and fear. Broadening the scope of analysis beyond a consideration of power, the authors bring into focus alternative local cosmologies and the unintended consequences of environmental policy. The volume highlights scholarship from within Central Asia as well as expertise elsewhere, offering readers diverse modes of knowledge-production in the environmental humanities. This book is an important resource for researchers and students of the environmental humanities, sustainability, history, politics, anthropology and geography of Asia, as well as Soviet and Post-Soviet studies.

Download or read book Central Asian Environments in Transition written by Asian Development Bank. Environment Division and published by Asian Development Bank. This book was released on 1997 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Environmental Problems of Central Asia and Their Economic Social and Security Impacts written by Jiaguo Qi and published by NATO Science for Peace and Security Series C: Environmental Security. This book was released on 2008-10-14 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Environmental Problems of Central Asia and their Economic, Social and Security Impacts Tashkent, Uzbekistan 1-5 October 2007

Download or read book The Socio Economic Causes and Consequences of Desertification in Central Asia written by Roy Behnke and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-08-19 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains a selection of papers presented at the Advanced Research Workshop on ‘The Socio-economic causes and consequences of desertification in Central Asia’ held in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, in June 2006. The meeting provided a forum for twenty-six scientists from Central Asia and NATO countries to discuss the human dimensions of the desertifi- tion process. Papers presented to the meeting examined recent scientific evidence on the impact of desertification on livestock production, public health, and biodiversity, and contributed to the formulation of coh- ent national and regional policies for the management of watersheds, rangelands, and irrigated agriculture. The meeting was co-directed by Roy Behnke of the Macaulay Institute, UK, and by Lapas Alibekov of the Samarkand State University, Uzbekistan. Both the workshop and this subsequent publication have been financed by the NATO Scientific Affairs Division and we gratefully acknowledge this support. The Bishkek meeting was ably hosted by the Kyrgyz Sheep Breeders Association under the dir- tion of Akylbek Rakaev who contributed substantially to the successful running of the workshop. Deliberations at the workshop emphasized that policy failures at national level had promoted desertification within the region.

Download or read book Revised Guidelines on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context for Central Asian Countries written by and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The economies of the Central Asian countries have seen unprecedented growth over the past two decades and have ambitious goals for the future, including with regard to modernizing industries and enhancing infrastructure to support inclusive economic development and connectivity in the subregion. The governments of these countries recognize that it is imperative for them to ensure that industry- and infrastructure-development projects not only provide short-term economic benefits but also guarantee long-term sustainable growth and the right of future generations to a clean and healthy environment. In this context Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan increasingly acknowledge that environmental impact assessment is an effective mechanism for ensuring that environmental and health considerations are incorporatied in to development projects at an early stage"--Page 3.

Download or read book Central Asia Atlas of Natural Resources written by Asian Development Bank and published by Asian Development Bank. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This atlas brings together a wealth of information related to living and nonliving natural resources in the five countries of Central Asia---Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. It contains an array of maps based on geographic information systems and remote sensing images, numerous photographs, tabulations of important data, and extensive descriptive text that together illustrate and describe the region's bountiful natural resources, its diversity of peoples, and their progress toward sustainable development. Highlights include geographic and climatic features; environmental, economic, and social profiles; energy, minerals, and water resources; ecoregions and ecosystems; major fauna and flora; agriculture and fisheries; peoples and cultural traditions; and economic and social statistics.

Download or read book Thirteen Environmental Stories from Central Asia written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Environmental Change and Human Security Recognizing and Acting on Hazard Impacts written by Peter H. Liotta and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-07-31 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Environmental and Human Security: Then and Now 1 2 ALAN D. HECHT AND P. H. LIOTTA * 1 U. S. Environmental Protection Agency Office of Research and Development 2 Pell Center for International Relations and Public Policy Salve Regina University 1. Nontraditional Threats to Security The events of September 11, 2001 have sharpened the debate over the meaning of being secure. Before 9/11 there were warnings in all parts of the world that social and environmental changes were occurring. While there was prosperity in North America and Western Europe, there was also increasing recognition that local and global effects of ecosystem degradation posed a serious threat. Trekking from Cairo to Cape Town thirty years after living in Africa as a young teacher, for example, travel writer Paul Theroux concluded that development in sub-Saharan Africa had failed to improve the quality of life for 300 million people: “Africa is materially more decrepit than it was when I first knew it—hungrier, poorer, less educated, more pessimistic, more corrupt, and you can’t tell the politicians from the witch-doctors” (2002). While scholars and historians will debate the causes of 9/11 for some time, one message is clear: An often dizzying array of nontraditional threats and complex vulnerabilities define security today. We must understand them, and deal with them, or suffer the consequences. Environmental security has always required att- tion to nontraditional threats linked closely with social and economic well-being.

Download or read book Sustainable Development in Central Asia written by Shirin Akiner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-11-25 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the result of a pioneering conference held in Ulaan Baatar in September 1994. The first Conference on the Sustainable Development of Central Asia brought together government officials, development professionals, academics, activists and religious representatives from Central, South and East Asia and the West. The full range of perspectives from this diverse group is presented here on how Central Asia can find paths of development which really serve its long term interests, and what the rest of the world can learn from Central Asians about living in harmony with the environment.

Download or read book Risk Assessment as a Tool for Water Resources Decision Making in Central Asia written by Christopher M. Teaf and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Water resources, both in terms of water quality and water quantity, are of critical importance in planning for sustainable development in Central Asia and the Caucasus, as well as in other parts of the world. This NATO Advanced Research Workshop (ARW), entitled "Risk Assessment as a Tool for Water Resources Decision-Making in Central Asia", was conducted on September 23-25, 2002 in Almaty, Kazakhstan. The ARW addressed methods and approaches by which risk assessment methodology that has been developed in the United States, Europe and elsewhere can be applied to environmental and water resource problems in Central Asia. The stated goals of the ARWwere: • to assess the existing state of knowledge in the context of potential applications of risk assessment tools to water resources and other environmental issues in Central Asia; • to identify research gaps and directions for future research in the area of water resources which may be addressed through the application of risk assessment tools; • to promote closer working relationships between the scientists and technical experts from Central Asia and the Caucasus, as well as the scientists and technical experts from the United States and Europe. Based on historical experiences of Central Asian scientists and their colleagues in other parts of the world, there is a demonstrated need in the region to provide education, training and technical assistance on environmental decision-making tools, including risk assessment.

Download or read book Transboundary Environmental Governance in Asia written by Simon Marsden and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2015-04-30 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive overview of treaty implementation and compliance concerning transboundary environmental governance in Asia is provided in this timely book. Recent United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) membership by Asian states in the C

Download or read book Reconceptualizing Cultural and Environmental Change in Central Asia written by Mitsuko Watanabe and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Socio Economic Causes and Consequences of Desertification in Central Asia written by Roy Behnke and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-11-16 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains a selection of papers presented at the Advanced Research Workshop on ‘The Socio-economic causes and consequences of desertification in Central Asia’ held in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, in June 2006. The meeting provided a forum for twenty-six scientists from Central Asia and NATO countries to discuss the human dimensions of the desertifi- tion process. Papers presented to the meeting examined recent scientific evidence on the impact of desertification on livestock production, public health, and biodiversity, and contributed to the formulation of coh- ent national and regional policies for the management of watersheds, rangelands, and irrigated agriculture. The meeting was co-directed by Roy Behnke of the Macaulay Institute, UK, and by Lapas Alibekov of the Samarkand State University, Uzbekistan. Both the workshop and this subsequent publication have been financed by the NATO Scientific Affairs Division and we gratefully acknowledge this support. The Bishkek meeting was ably hosted by the Kyrgyz Sheep Breeders Association under the dir- tion of Akylbek Rakaev who contributed substantially to the successful running of the workshop. Deliberations at the workshop emphasized that policy failures at national level had promoted desertification within the region.

Download or read book Environmental Performance Reviews written by United Nations. Economic Commission for Europe. Committee on Environmental Policy and published by New York : United Nations. This book was released on 2001 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Environmental Performance Reviews promote sustainable development throughout Europe. They present a detailed study on environmental position of each country and examine the framework for environmental policy and management.