Did the Desire for Cotton Self-Sufficiency Lead to the Aral Sea Environmental Disaster? : A Case Study on Trade and the Environment
The desiccation of the Aral Sea was one of the greatest environmental disasters of the latter part of the twentieth century. In 1960, it was the fourth largest lake in the world. However, since 1965, the sea has lost seventy five percent of its vol...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2017
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/433771484052748191/Did-the-desire-for-cotton-self-sufficiency-lead-to-the-Aral-sea-environmental-disaster-a-case-study-on-trade-and-the-environment http://hdl.handle.net/10986/25939 |