The Aral Sea Environment

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Kostianoy, Andrey G. (Editor), Kosarev, Aleksey N. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2010.
• Series: The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry, 7
• Subjects: Environmental sciences.; Geochemistry.; Oceanography.; Environmental chemistry.; Environmental toxicology.; Marine Sciences.; Environment.; Environmental Chemistry.; Marine & Freshwater Sciences.; Ecotoxicology.; Environmental Monitoring/Analysis.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-88277-0

The environmental problems in the Aral Sea region continue to worsen. This volume presents the information gathered to date on various aspects of the Aral Sea environment. Specialists from institutions in Russia, Uzbekistan, France, Germany and the USA cover different topics  from the paleohistory...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• History of Investigation and Exploration of the Aral Sea
• Paleogeographical history of the Aral Sea
• The Aral Sea in natural conditions (till 1960)
• Socio-Economic Conditions of the Aral Sea Region Before 1960
• Reasons of the environmental and socioeconomic crisis
• Regional climate variability
• Amudarya and Syrdarya Rivers and their Deltas
• Physical Oceanography of the Large Aral Sea
• Satellite Monitoring of the Aral Sea Region
• Aral Sea level variability
• Ice conditions from historical and satellite observations
• Chemistry of the Large Aral Sea
• Biodiversity
• Archaeology and its relevance to climate and lake level changes: a review
• Creeping Environmental Disasters: Central Asia's Aral Seas
• Conclusions.