Disaster by Design: The Aral Sea and Its Lessons for Sustainability

by Michael R. Edelstein

Disaster by Design: The Aral Sea, Lessons for Sustainability addresses the impacts of the Aral Sea disaster. The virtual disappearance of what was the world's fourth largest inland body of water was neither natural nor accidental. It was the result of deliberate policy decisions. The sea's disappearance is hardly the entire disaster. Instead, we find an accumulation of cascading effects, beginning with the decision to grow cotton, reached remotely...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1781903751
• ISBN13: 9781781903759
• Release Date: November 2012
• Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"