Geography of Central Asia

Geography of Central Asia

Human Adaptations, Natural Processes and Post-Soviet Transition

Buciene, Angelija; Silvestri, Tommaso; Jelen, Igor; Chiavon, Francesco; Forrest, Katie Louise

Springer Nature Switzerland AG

03/2021

358

Dura

Inglês

9783030612658

15 a 20 dias

1363

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Preface.- Acknowledgement.- Chapter 1. Premise: a land of extremes.- Chapter 2. The geographical setting and physical environment.- Chapter 3. Geo biology, botanic and biodiversity.- Chapter 4. Ecological base and environmental constraints.- Chapter 5. Modernization and correspondent ecological/ human ruptures.- Chapter 6. Environmental challenges in globalization and post-modern times.- Chapter 7. A historical periodization: from nature to early stages of human settlement, to classic age.- Chapter 8. Modern era and modernization processes until the soviet collapse.- Chapter 9. The geographical mosaic.- Chapter 10. From culture to material aspects.- Chapter 11. The material "container": structural and infra-structural aspects.- Chapter 12. Economics, from micro to macro.- Chapter 13. Institutions and politics.- Chapter 14. Political geography and geopolitics.- Chapter 15. Final comments.

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Anthropogenic Effects on Natural Environments;Culture-Nature Interactions in Central Asia;Geography of Kazakhstan;Geography of Uzbekistan;Geography of Turkmenistan;Geography of Kyrgyzstan;Geography of Tajikistan;Global- and Local-Scale Tensions;Human Adaptation in Extreme Environments;Impacts of Ideologies and Technologies on Territories;Physical and Human Geography of Central Asia;world regional geography