Download or read book Environmental Problems of Central Asia and their Economic Social and Security Impacts written by Jiaguo Qi and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-10-11 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the last 60 years, we have recognized increasingly that our world is connected, and the impacts of environmental catastrophes and economic crises in one region of our world have far-reaching and long-lasting consequences globally. Central Asia is a developing region with great potential, but there are valid concerns that current resource management practices are not sustainable, particularly with regard to the management of water resources. Recent changes in social structures, accompanied by regional climate change, have caused substantial environmental changes leading to security concerns in the region. As a result, the local economy has been significantly impacted to the extent that the potential for social unrest is of great concern. This book explores new technologies and adaptation strategies to mitigate these environmental problems and cope with continued environmental change with the ultimate goal of promoting sustainable growth and improved quality of life in the region.
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 230 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 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 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Climate Change in Central Asia written by Rahat Sabyrbekov and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-04-13 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access book explores climate change impacts, adaptation, and mitigation in Central Asia and discusses policy options for the Central Asian governments. To address the urgent need for local scholarship on climate change in Central Asia, and in particular the need for more research by social scientists, this book features a wide range of contributions on climate change impacts, adaptation and mitigation in the region. Each chapter makes an important contribution to social science scholarship on climate change and decarbonization in Central Asia. Topics include decarbonization opportunities, carbon pricing instruments, the geo-economics of the energy transition, the relationship between human mobility and climate change. The book thus offers valuable insights for both academics and policymakers.
Download or read book The Security Environment of Central Asia written by S. Frederick Starr and published by Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research. This book was released on 1999-11-23 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The global attention that has focused on the energy resources of Central Asia has tended to obscure the real security issues affecting this vital region. According to this analysis, the eight new states to the east and west of the Caspian Sea face major challenges as fledgling sovereignties seeking to carve new national identities and sustain their legitimacy as they shed their legacy as former Soviet states. The involvement of diverse nations in the exploitation and export of Caspian oil offers the best hope of stability in the region, although the fear that a single external power might gain monopolistic control over these coveted resources is an issue of major concern. Any economic or social breakdown in the region is likely to create a dangerous power vacuum, since the states are surrounded by three current nuclear powers and another aspiring nuclear power. These Central Asian states share several characteristics with the Gulf states and like them are exploring avenues for intra-regional cooperation and integration. The Gulf states are therefore poised to play a unique role in the development of the strategic Central Asian region with which its destinies have historically been linked.
Download or read book Central Asia Human Development Report written by Johannes F. Linn and published by UN. This book was released on 2005 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report is a comprehensive analysis of the many challenges that confront Central Asia, including high trade costs, environmental devastation, increased inequality, rising migration, the rapid spread of HIV/AIDS and poor governance. There has been recent progress towards regional cooperation, but the barriers created by borders negatively affect peoples' lives. It is contended that increased cooperation among the Central Asian republics, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan would produce substantial political and economic gains, including income increases of 50 percent to 100 percent over the next ten years. The cost of non-cooperation is continued deterioration in income distribution, social services and general living conditions, according to the Report, and possibly a descent into the vicious cycle of economic crisis and corrupt governance that often leads to social unrest.
Download or read book Russia the Caucasus and Central Asia written by Rajan Menon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-07-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive exploration of the international environment examines not only traditional political-military concerns but also economic, ethnic, and environmental issues and the role of crime, terrorism, the drug trade, and migration in the security environment of Russia and its neighbours to the south. This approach takes account of both the internal and external aspects of security problems and their interplay. The participation of international authors facilitates the consideration of each problem from all relevant points of view.
Download or read book Environmental Security and Sustainable Land Use with Special Reference to Central Asia written by Hartmut Vogtmann and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-04-24 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Environmental Security and Sustainable Land Use of Mountain and Steppe Territories of Mongolia and Altai, held in Barnaul, Russia, 25-27 October 2004
Download or read book Central Asian Waters written by Muhammad Mizanur Rahaman and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Aral Sea Crisis in Central Asia written by K.B. Usha and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aral Sea crisis in Central Asia is one of the most catastrophic but anthropogenic environmental, economic and human disasters. The crisis developed due to the desiccation of Aral Sea, triggering ecological disaster as the water acquired high level of hazardous chemicals, pesticides and microbial contaminants. The depletion of water and related environmental damage affects the whole region's sustainable development, human wellbeing, security and survival. This paper argues that the human insecurities have disproportionate impact on women owing to the persistence of patriarchal exploitative social order and structural inequality inherent in the Central Asian societies. The loss of egalitarian approach towards women's issues in the Soviet era, the revival of traditional gender stereotypes, economic deprivation, limited access to decision-making process and inadequate attention paid to gender issues in the neoliberal development priorities of states in the region make women further vulnerable. Hence, exploring the complexities of environment, human security and gender concerns are relevant.
Download or read book Responding to Environmental Challenges in Central Asia and the Caspian Basin written by Edward Hughes and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-04-19 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The objectives of the conference were to clarify how environmental issues are central to the security of the region with the potential to create tensions or promote multilateral cooperation.
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 a New Great Game written by Dianne L. Smith and published by . This book was released on 2013-02-02 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is there a new "Great Game" being played out in Central Asia? Boris Rumer argues that the successor states to the Russian and British empires have renewed the struggle for hegemony in the center of the Asian continent. As the world shifts from a bipolar to a multipolar focus, the nations of Asia search for new trans-regional security arrangements. More specifically, the breakup of the Soviet Union and the creation of five Central Asian republics (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, and Tajikistan), have complicated the security relations of the Asian states. (See Figure 1.) But, this new struggle is not a repeat of the 19th century "Great Game," by which the Central Asian states are but pawns of great powers as they jockey for power and position. Instead, the Central Asian states themselves are active players in this struggle for power, in a unique geo-strategic position to influence immediate neighbors Russia, China, and Iran, and even beyond into the Indian subcontinent. Once considered a backwater of little importance during the Soviet era, Central Asia could play a pivotal role in Asian politics in the next decade.Enlargement and Engagement set domestic political stability, regional peace, and the maturation of market economies in the five Central Asian states as policy goals of the United States. The key to Asian, especially Central Asian, regional security is economic. A strong, vibrant market economy is a prerequisite for political stability and the growth of democracy. Political stability, however, is itself a key element to economic development; peace in the region, especially in Tajikistan, Afghanistan, and Kashmir, must be gained before that economic takeoff can occur.Serious political, economic, ethnic, religious, and social challenges confront the five new Central Asian states in this quest for regional security. How each state is able to confront and resolve these problems will determine its ability to emerge as a viable force in this struggle for influence, in this new "Great Game." Instability might seem to provide opportunities for states such as Iran or China to expand their influence, but the risks that such instability would ricochet back on them are too great. Thus, Iran, Pakistan, India, Russia and China each seek, in their own way, to promote stability within Central Asia while expanding their own regional influence.Implications for American security from this struggle derive from the U.S. desire to prevent existing problems within Central Asia from escalating into crises that might engage Iran, Pakistan, India, Russia or China. Therefore, we must first identify those centrifugal forces threatening Central Asia, then review each of these states in turn, to analyze their behavior, identify their regional objectives and state policies in relation to Central Asia, and evaluate the impact of Central Asia upon their own security. Doing so offers a better perspective on our own strategic interests in post-Cold War Asia.
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 Responding To Environmental Challenges in Central Asia and the Caspian Basin written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 5 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Environmental security is USCENTCOM's most viable option for engaging the Central Asia states and promoting most multilateral cooperation. It provides opportunities for communication and cooperation between regional states that might in other ways be antagonists. Because the Central Asia states are young and politically risk adverse, engagement activities must be complementary to their short-term perspective and non-threatening to their national sovereignty. Disaster response as the environmental security engagement vehicle has proven valuable to meeting these requirements.
Download or read book Central Asian Security written by Roy Allison and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2004-05-13 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is the first comprehensive scholarly analysis of the strategic reconfiguration of Central Asia as Russia has become more disengaged from the nations in the region and as these nations have developed new relations to the south, east, and west. The international implications are enormous because of the rich energy sources—oil and natural gas—located in the Caspian Sea area. The authors assess a variety of internal security policy challenges confronting these states—for example, the potential for conflict arising from such factors as a mixed ethnic population, resource scarcity, particularly in relation to water management, and an Islamic revival. They also examine the security policy content of relations between the Central Asian states and regional and international powers—specifically the stakes, interests, and policies of Russia, China, Iran, Turkey, and the United States. These internal challenges and the evolution of relations with external powers may result in new cooperative relationships, but they may also lead to destabilizing rivalry and interstate enmity in Central Asia. It is important to identify new patterns of relevance for future security cooperation in the region, but the potential for a new security system or for new institutions to manage security in the region remains uncertain. These issues are explored by a team of prominent specialists from Western Europe, the United States, Russia and China.
Download or read book The Geography of Central Asia written by Igor Jelen and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-03-01 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a profound geographical description and analysis of Central Asia. The authors take a synthetic approach in a period of critical transformation in the post-soviet time. The monograph analyzes comprehensively the physical and human geography as well as human-nature interactions of Central Asia with focus on Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. Natural processes are described at a systemic scale, focusing on ecological impacts and consequences and contemporary human adaptations and organization. It also discusses in which ways the human organizations try to apply solutions for their needs such as security, territorial management and resources renewability, material and functional needs, identity elaborations, culture and communication. The Geography of Central Asia appeals to scientists and students of regional geography and interested academics from other areas such as social, political, economic and environmental studies within the context of Central Asia. The book is also a very useful resource for field trips into this area.
