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Vital Caspian graphics : challenges beyond caviar

Title: Vital Caspian graphics : challenges beyond caviar / editors, Ieva Rucevska [and others] ; cartography, Philippe Rekacewicz [and others] ; English translation and editing, Harry Forster.
Publication: [Arendal, Norway] : UNEP/GRID-Arendal, ©2006.

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Description

70 pages : color illustrations, color maps; 24 cm

Summary

This publication examines issues affecting the environment of the Caspian Sea and the surrounding areas. We often associate the Caspian Sea with caviar that is legally or illegally finding its way to our tables, but overlook the footprints left by a number of industries installed on shores of the Caspian that are serving the world wealthiest market demands. The struggle for access to the vast resources of this unique and fragile ecosystem and the development of new transportation routes between Europe and Asia continue to shape the geopolitical and security conditions in and around the world's largest body of inland water. These and other developments pose complex challenges in the efforts of countries to improve the damaged ecosystems that the local communities are depending on.--Publisher's description.

Subject

Genre/Form

Maps
Maps.
Cartes géographiques.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 70).

Contents

A SEA OF MANY AMBITIONS -- CYCLIC FLUCTUATIONS IN THE LEVEL OF THE CASPIAN SEA -- BIG PROJECTS, BIG CONSEQUENCES -- THE MARKS OF HUMAN ACTIVITY -- RISING POPULATION, DECLINING HEALTH -- ECOSYSTEMS PAYING THE PRICE -- ENVIRONMENT AND SECURITY -- A FRAGILE BALANCE

ISBN

8277010397
9788277010397

LCCN

2013487656

OCLC

ocm70260393
70260393
SCSB-8803668

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Princeton University Library