1st Edition

Environmental Crises Geographical Case Studies in Post-Socialist Eurasia

By Tatyana Saiko Copyright 2001
336 Pages
by Routledge

336 Pages
by Routledge

336 Pages
by Routledge

Provides students with an in-depth historic and contemporary understanding of the causes, magnitude and implications of the different types of environmental crises in the countries of the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.

1. Introduction;2. The Conceptual Framework;3. The Arctic North;4. Lake Baikal;5. The Moscow Region;6. Chernobyl;7. The 'Black Triangle' of Central Europe;8. Kalmykia;9. The Volga Basin;10. The Caspian Sea Region;11. Desiccation of the Aral Sea;12. Conclusion

Biography

Tatvana Sailko