Rescue of Sturgeon Species in the Ural River Basin

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvii

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2. International Experience in Transboundary Watershed Management and Sturgeon Restoration

   1. Water

      1. Environmental Security and the Role of River Regimes in Fostering (Environmental) Cooperation: Case of the International Sava River Basin Commission

         • Amar ČolakhodžiĆ

         Pages 5-27

      2. Challenges and Prospects of Transboundary Water Management in Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia

         • Sonja Koeppel

         Pages 29-38

      3. Successful Transboundary River Basin and Estuary Cooperation: Benchmarks for the Ural River Basin?

         • Jerome Simpson, Stephen Stec, Wim Cofino, Helle Peeters, Bert Van Hove, Annemiek Verhallen

         Pages 39-52

      4. The Issues of Transboundary Rivers in South Caucasus at the End of the 20th and Beginning of the 21st Centuries

         • Trahel Vardanian

         Pages 53-58

   2. Sturgeon Species

      1. Migratory Fish Stocks in Transboundary Basins — Implications for Governance, Management and Research

         • John Valbo-Jørgensen, Gerd Marmulla, Robin L. Welcomme

         Pages 61-86

      2. The Key Threats to Sturgeons and Measures for Their Protection in the Lower Danube Region

         • Mirjana Lenhardt, Ivan Jarić, Gorčin Cvijanović, Marija Smederevac-Lalić

         Pages 87-96

      3. Rescue Efforts to Save Sturgeons in America

         • Mohammed K. Zaidi, Susan Ireland

         Pages 97-109

      4. River Rehabilitation: A New Approach to the Design of Fish Passes through Dams

         • Vladimir Lagutov, Viktor Lagutov

         Pages 111-123

3. The Ural River Basin

   1. Water Resources

      1. The Ural River Basin: Hydrology, Characteristics and Water Use

         • Viktor Lagutov

         Pages 129-161

      2. River Flow Formation in the Russian South Urals

         • Yury Nesterenko, Maxim Nesterenko

         Pages 163-171

      3. Climate Change and Water Resources in North Caucasus and South Urals

         • Nikolai Dronin, Andrei Kirilenko

         Pages 173-189

   2. Fish Resources

      1. The Ural River Sturgeons: Population Dynamics, Catch, Reasons for Decline and Restoration Strategies

         • Viktor Lagutov, Vladimir Lagutov

         Pages 193-276

      2. Field and Genetic Approaches to Enhance Knowledge of Ural River Sturgeon Biology

         • Phaedra Doukakis, Daniel Erickson, Mirgaly Baimukhanov, Yelena Bokova, Sagiden Erbulekov, Akhat Nimatov et al.

         Pages 277-292

      3. Fish Biodiversity of the Orenburg Region and Their Parasitic Diseases

         • A. Gryzunov

         Pages 293-298

   3. Restoration Activities

      1. Establishment of the International Ural Sturgeon Park to Secure Sturgeon Conservation and to Facilitate Sustainable Integrated Water Management

         • Viktor Lagutov, Vladimir Lagutov

         Pages 301-323

      2. Results of the First International Ural River Basin Workshop (NATO-ARW)

         Pages 325-330

4. Back Matter

   Pages 331-333

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While almost every aspect of society-nature interactions can be treated as an environmental security issue, the threats to human societies originating from inadequate freshwater management constitute one of the most wi- spread and pressing problems. For thousands of years rivers and river valleys have been the cradle of human civilizations. Rivers have provided not only food and freshwater, but also shelter and means of transportation, and they are still an essential component in every national and regional economy. In turn, growing needs of human societies, accompanied by growing abilities, have caused significant river alterations and ecosystem changes that have resulted in river contamination, biodiversity loss and general riverine ecosystem degradation. The extinction of sturgeon species is one of the most eloquent examples of the negative and irreversible influence of human society on river e- systems. The sturgeon, sometimes called the “living fossil” or living “dinosaur” of the fish world, is known to have lived since the time of the dinosaurs, for at least 250 million years, and is currently on the verge of extinction solely due to anthropogenic impacts.

• Biodiversity
• Danube
• Environmental
• NATO
• Science
• Security
• Sub-Series C
• ecosystem
• environment
• hydrology
• water quality and water pollution

• Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary

  Viktor Lagutov

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