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Welcome to the Aral Sea Disaster Project!

Submitted by ecoedelstein
on Fri, 05/20/2011 - 19:10

The first phase of this project, funded by the Trust for Mutual Understanding, involves travel to Uzbekistan by a team from the U.S. We are about to depart for this adventure.

On these pages, follow us as we move from Tashkent to Samarkand and then toward the Aral Region. We will use this website to record information from our trip, make postings, share pictures and post video clips. Feel free to follow us as we explore the Aral Sea Disaster and what we can learn from it to prevent making future catastrophic choices.

 

See the image of Aral Sea  Geographical Area.

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Project Participants

Submitted by ecoedelstein
on Fri, 05/20/2011 - 19:10

 

 

The Team
Project Director:
Michael R. Edelstein, Ph.D., An Environmental Psychologist,  Dr. Edelstein is a sustainability theorist and practitioner. He heads the Institute for Environmental Studies at Ramapo College of New Jersey, where he has taught for 37 years in the undergraduate faculty of Environment Studies and the graduate faculty of Sustainability Studies.Edelstein’s personal research and writing focuseson the social and psychological impacts of environmental contamination and undesired environmental change. Books include Contaminated Communities: Coping with Residential Toxic
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Aral Sea Disaster Conference

Submitted by ecoedelstein
on Fri, 05/20/2011 - 19:10

 

 

"Exchanging Lessons of the Aral Sea Disaster"

October 27, 2011

This full day conference is the result of an exchange program with Uzbek partners under a grant to the Ramapo College Institute for Environmental Studies from the Trust for Mutual Understanding.

The Aral Sea disaster has earned a prominent place among the worst known ecological, social and economic disasters. The virtual disappearance from the face of the earth of one of the largest inland seas caused irreparable damage to the local population, once dependent upon fishing and fish processing for their livelihood.

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