Assessment of Climate and Human Induced Disaster Risk Over Shared Water Resources in the Balkhash Lake Drainage Basin

Climate Change Management

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 41-54

  Propastin, Pavel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Central Asia; Climate change; Disaster risk; Lake Balkhash; River Ili; Transboundary water; Water resources conflicts

Indexed keywords

EID: 85010744089     PISSN: 16102002     EISSN: 16102010     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-31110-9_3     Document Type: Chapter

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