Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Environmental economics > Sustainability
|
Buy Now
Environmental Security in Watersheds: The Sea of Azov (Paperback, 2012)
Loot Price: R4,228
Discovery Miles 42 280
|
|
Environmental Security in Watersheds: The Sea of Azov (Paperback, 2012)
Series: NATO Science for Peace and Security Series C: Environmental Security
Expected to ship within 10 - 15 working days
|
Watersheds, supplying crucial ecosystem services to humans, seem to
be a logical territorial unit to integrate societal benefits and
environmental needs in order to evaluate the sustainability of
natural resource use patterns. Based on this belief the book is an
attempt to initiate a comprehensive environmental security
assessment in the basin of the Azov Sea, shared by Russia and
Ukraine. Though the region provides a variety of essential services
and plays a strategic role in national and international
development plans, it has been excluded from most regional
environmental discussions. At the same time there is an alarming
degradation rate of basin freshwater ecosystems that has occurred
due to overutilization of certain prioritized services (e.g.
transportation). The collapse of neglected services (e.g. fishery
and freshwater supply) poses serious threats to the national
economies as well as the local population, and to mitigate these
threats priority in water management should be given to securing
sustainability of the regional freshwater ecosystems. In addition
to the review of the current status of Azov ecosystem services, the
authors analyze likely future availability and challenges. The
relevant experience derived from basin management of the Black Sea
and other similar basins is also discussed.
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
|
|
Email address subscribed successfully.
A activation email has been sent to you.
Please click the link in that email to activate your subscription.