Overview
- Provides research-based information on lakes and water reservoirs in Central Asian countries
- Highlights the effects of climate change on water resources in Central Asia
- Includes recommendations on water consumption and -management in Central Asia
Part of the book series: Water Resources Development and Management (WRDM)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Balkash Lake
- Glaciers
- Alakol lake system
- Aral Sea Basin
- Lake systems
- Sayram Lake
- Water reservoirs
- Chaiwopu Lake
- Water resources
- Climate change
- Central Kazakhstan
- Lake and Sea Basins
- Issyk-Kul lake basin
- Tectonic depressions
- Morphometry of lakes
- hydrogeology
- climate change impacts
- Environmental Geography
- mineral resources
About this book
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Jilili Abuduwaili is a professor at Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is an Associate Editor of the “Journal of Arid Land”; Editor in chief of the “Arid Land Geography” and “Arid Land Research” journals (both in Uyghur language); Editorial Board Member of the journal “Arid ecosystems” and “Soil Science and Agrochemistry. His research interests are in the area of resource environment in arid region, eco-security and change in landscape as well as cooperative research between Russia and countries in Central Asia.
Dr. Gulnura Issanova obtained her PhD in Natural Sciences. Currently she is a researcher at U. U. Uspanov Kazakh Research Institute of Soil Science and Agrochemistry and a Scientific Secretary at Research Centre of Ecology and Environment of Central Asia (Almaty). Her research interests are focused on soil degradation and desertification problems, in particular the role of dust and sand storms in land/soil degradation.
Dr. Galymzhan Saparov is the head of the Department of Soil Ecology at U. U. Uspanov Kazakh Research Institute of Soil Science and Agrochemistry, as well as head of laboratory at the Research Centre of Ecology and Environment of Central Asia (Almaty), Kazakhstan. He graduated from Kazakh Agricultural Institute in 1995 and holds a PhD degree from U.U. Uspanov Kazakh Research Institute of Soil Science and Agrochemistry. His research is focused on problems of soil degradation and remediation of disturbed lands.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Hydrology and Limnology of Central Asia
Authors: Jilili Abuduwaili, Gulnura Issanova, Galymzhan Saparov
Series Title: Water Resources Development and Management
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-0929-8
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-13-0928-1Published: 11 August 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-4534-0Published: 09 February 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-981-13-0929-8Published: 01 August 2018
Series ISSN: 1614-810X
Series E-ISSN: 2198-316X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 411
Number of Illustrations: 13 b/w illustrations, 99 illustrations in colour
Topics: Hydrogeology, Hydrology/Water Resources, Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts, Environmental Geography, Environmental Science and Engineering, Mineral Resources