Natural Resources In Afghanistan

Author : John F. Shroder
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0128005459
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Natural Resources in Afghanistan written by John F. Shroder and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2014-06-04 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Natural Resources in Afghanistan: Geographic and Geologic Perspectives on Centuries of Conflict details Afghanistan's physical geography — namely climate, soils, vegetation, water, hazards, and basic geologic background and terrain landforms — together with details of its rich natural resources, ethnic problems, and relevant past histories. The book couples these details with the challenges of environmental degradation and new environmental management and protection, all of which are considered finally in both pessimistic and optimistic modes. The reader comes away with a nuanced understanding of the issues that are likely to have great affect for this pivotal region of the world for decades to come. With an estimated $1-3 trillion dollars of ore in the ground, and multiple cross-reinforcing cancellations of big Asian power machinations (China, India, Iran, Pakistan), Afghanistan has an opportunity to gain more economic independence. At the same time, however, historic forces of negativity also pull it back toward the chaos and uncertainty that has defined the country and constrained its economic progress for decades. Authored by the world’s foremost expert on the geology and geomorphology of Afghanistan and its lucrative natural resources Aids in the understanding of the physical environment, natural hazards, climate-change situations, and natural resources in one of the most geographically diverse and dangerous terrains in the world Provides new concepts of resource-corridor development in a country with no indigenous expertise of its resources

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Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Author : John F. Shroder
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0128018615
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transboundary Water Resources in Afghanistan written by John F. Shroder and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2016-06-13 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transboundary Water from Afghanistan: Climate Change, and Land-Use Implications brings together diverse factual material on the physical geography and political, cultural, and economic implications of Southwest Asian transboundary water resources. It is the outgrowth of long-term deep knowledge and experience gained by the authors, as well as the material developed from a series of new workshops funded by the Lounsbery Foundation and other granting agencies. Afghanistan and Pakistan have high altitude mountains providing vital water supplies that are highly contentious necessities much threatened by climate change, human land-use variation, and political manipulation, which can be managed in new ways that are in need of comprehensive discussions and negotiations between all the riparian nations of the Indus watershed (Afghanistan, China, India, and Pakistan). This book provides a description of the basic topographic configuration of the Kabul River tributary to the Indus river, together will all its tributaries that flow back and forth across the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan, and the basic elements that are involved with the hydrological cycle and its derivatives in the high mountains of the Hindu Kush and Himalaya. Synthesizes information on the physical geography and political, cultural, and economic implications of Southwest Asian transboundary water resources Offers a basic topographic description of the Indus River watershed Provides local water management information not easily available for remote and contentious border areas Delivers access to the newest thinking from chief personnel on both sides of the contentious border Features material developed from a series of new workshops funded by the Lounsbery Foundation and other granting agencies

Author : Asian Development Bank
Publisher : Asian Development Bank
ISBN 13 : 9292547593
Total Pages : 547 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Central Asia Atlas of Natural Resources written by Asian Development Bank and published by Asian Development Bank. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 547 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This atlas brings together a wealth of information related to living and nonliving natural resources in the five countries of Central Asia---Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. It contains an array of maps based on geographic information systems and remote sensing images, numerous photographs, tabulations of important data, and extensive descriptive text that together illustrate and describe the region's bountiful natural resources, its diversity of peoples, and their progress toward sustainable development. Highlights include geographic and climatic features; environmental, economic, and social profiles; energy, minerals, and water resources; ecoregions and ecosystems; major fauna and flora; agriculture and fisheries; peoples and cultural traditions; and economic and social statistics.

Author : Qureshi, A. S.
Publisher : IWMI
ISBN 13 : 929090495X
Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Water resources management in Afghanistan: The issues and options written by Qureshi, A. S. and published by IWMI. This book was released on 2002 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report presents the analysis of current status of water resources management in Afghanistan and identify steps for maximizing the use ofavailable water resources to enhance crop productivity and environmental sustainability.

Author : Action Aid International
Publisher : Pearson Education India
ISBN 13 : 8131753891
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Natural Resource Management in South Asia: written by Action Aid International and published by Pearson Education India. This book was released on with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Natural Resource Management in South Asia deals with the problems in the management of natural resources in South Asia. It raises reasonable concerns and queries the manner in which developmental polices are implemented, without undermining the importance of the economic development process. The topics include energy, land, biodiversity, water and the atmosphere, challenges faced by people in Afghanistan. The book examines options to ensure food and water security in South Asia and an alternative policy framework for a sustainable environment.

Author : Gary W. Bowersox
Publisher : GeoVision, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780945005193
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gemstones of Afghanistan written by Gary W. Bowersox and published by GeoVision, Inc.. This book was released on 1995 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A richly illustrated volume directed to gemologists and serious gem collectors.

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Publisher : Asian Development Bank
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Securing Afghanistan's Future, Accomplishments and the Way Forward written by and published by Asian Development Bank. This book was released on 2004 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper outlines the current status, accomplishments, and key issues in the natural resources management sector, and presents the Government's sector development programs and investment budgets.

Author : Alex Dehgan
Publisher : PublicAffairs
ISBN 13 : 1610396960
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Snow Leopard Project written by Alex Dehgan and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2019-01-22 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The remarkable story of the heroic effort to save and preserve Afghanistan's wildlife-and a culture that derives immense pride and a sense of national identity from its natural landscape. Postwar Afghanistan is fragile, volatile, and perilous. It is also a place of extraordinary beauty. Evolutionary biologist Alex Dehgan arrived in the country in 2006 to build the Wildlife Conservation Society's Afghanistan Program, and preserve and protect Afghanistan's unique and extraordinary environment, which had been decimated after decades of war. Conservation, it turned out, provided a common bond between Alex's team and the people of Afghanistan. His international team worked unarmed in some of the most dangerous places in the country-places so remote that winding roads would abruptly disappear, and travel was on foot, yak, or mule. In The Snow Leopard Project, Dehgan takes readers along with him on his adventure as his team helps create the country's first national park, completes the some of the first extensive wildlife surveys in thirty years, and works to stop the poaching of the country's iconic endangered animals, including the elusive snow leopard. In doing so, they help restore a part of Afghan identity that is ineffably tied to the land itself.

Author : Ali Azimi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Afghanistan's Environment in Transition written by Ali Azimi and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes statistics.