1st Edition
The Aral Sea Basin Water for Sustainable Development in Central Asia
Foreword by Guyzgeldi Bayjanov 1. Introduction 2. History of Water Management in the Aral Sea Basin 3. Surface Water Resources 4. Groundwater resources 5. Hydropower 6. Environmental Degradation 7. Water for Agriculture and other Economic Sectors 8. The Status and Role of the alpine Cryosphere in the Aral Sea Basin 9. Transboundary Water Management 10. Local and national institutions and policies governing water resources management 11. International actors and initiatives for sustainable water management 12. The Future of Water Resources 13. Implementing Water-Related Sustainable Development Goals
Biography
Stefanos Xenarios is Associate Professor in Nazarbayev University (NU), Graduate School of Public Policy, based in Nur-Sultan, Astana, Kazakhstan.
Dietrich Schmidt-Vogt is Honorary Professor at the Chair of Silviculture, Faculty of Environment and Natural Resources, Freiburg University, Germany.
Manzoor Qadir is Assistant Director in United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH), Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
Barbara Janusz-Pawletta is UNESCO Chair Holder in Water Management at the Central Asia Kazakh-German University, Almaty, Kazakhstan.
Iskandar Abdullaev is former Executive Director of the Regional Environmental Centre Central Asia (CAREC), based in Almaty, Kazakhstan, and the current Deputy Director of the CAREC Institute, Urumchi, China.
