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Human and Environmental Symbiosis in Central Asia: Through the Water Management of the Aral Sea Basin Crisis

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Notes

  1. Ishida and Nomura (2001, p. 100).

  2. Eurasianet (18 January 2008).

  3. For instance, Spoor (2000), Weinthal (2002), Glantz (1999), Wegerich (2003), Katayama (2004) point out the expansion of irrigation in the Soviet Era is the main cause of this crisis.

  4. Katayama, p. 241.

  5. Glantz, p. 9.

  6. Katayama, p. 243.

  7. Katayama, p. 244.

  8. Weinthal, p. 48.

  9. Chazournes (2006), p. 150.

  10. Chazournes, pp. 152–153.

  11. Dadabaev, p. 39.

  12. Dadabaev, p. 29.

  13. Katayama, p. 247.

  14. Inagaki (2008, pp. 596–598).

  15. Dadabaev, p. 30 and Inagaki, p. 598, 605.

  16. Weinthal, p. 174.

  17. Katayama, p. 248.

  18. For instance, Spoor (2000), Katayama (2004), and Dadabaev (2008).

  19. Spoor, p. 427.

  20. Katayama, p. 248.

  21. For instance, Spoor (2000) and Vinogradov and Langford (2001).

  22. For instance, Spoor (2000) and Dadabaev (2008).

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    Hirokazu Kubo, Kodai Tateno & Yuri Kato

  2. Graduate School of Law, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan

    Akira Watanabe

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Kubo, H., Tateno, K., Watanabe, A. et al. Human and Environmental Symbiosis in Central Asia: Through the Water Management of the Aral Sea Basin Crisis. Transit Stud Rev 16, 467–478 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11300-009-0085-y

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