Central Eurasian Water Crisis: Caspian, Aral, and Dead Seas (UNU, 1998, 203 pages): Part III: The Caspian Sea: 8. Environmental policy-making for sustainable development of the Caspian Sea area: Acknowledgement

Central Eurasian Water Crisis: Caspian, Aral, and Dead Seas (UNU, 1998, 203 pages)

Part III: The Caspian Sea

8. Environmental policy-making for sustainable development of the Caspian Sea area

		(introduction...)
		Introduction
		Morphometry and the principal hydrological features
		The water balance and water-level variations
		The economic impacts on the Caspian states of the water-level variations
		Other development issues requiring international cooperation
		Conclusions
		Acknowledgement
		References

Acknowledgement

The author expresses his very deep appreciation to Prof. Rudolf K. Klige for providing the graphs of the variations in the level of the Caspian Sea (figs. 8.1, 8.2, and 8.3).