Environment and Post-Soviet Transformation in Kazakhstan's Aral Sea Region Sea Changes |
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| Author:
| Wheeler, William |
| Series title: | Economic Exposures in Asia Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-80008-034-8 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2022 |
| Publisher: | UCL Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $45.00 |
Book Description:
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Presents a political ecology of life amid overlapping environmental and political upheaval. Once the fourth largest lake in the world, Kazakhstan's Aral Sea dried into an unrecognizable fraction of its size during a period of dramatic political change. Through the experiences of local fisheries across the rise and fall of the Soviet Union,
Environment and Post-Soviet Transformation in Kazakhstan's Aral Sea Region explores the diverse...
More Description Presents a political ecology of life amid overlapping environmental and political upheaval.
Once the fourth largest lake in the world, Kazakhstan's Aral Sea dried into an unrecognizable fraction of its size during a period of dramatic political change. Through the experiences of local fisheries across the rise and fall of the Soviet Union, Environment and Post-Soviet Transformation in Kazakhstan's Aral Sea Region explores the diverse ways people in different socioeconomic contexts understand environmental change. In this book, William Wheeler offers a rigorous political ecology of life amid overlapping upheavals, attentive both to the legacies of Sovietism and the possibilities of transnationalism.