Ecosystem and Social Construction: an Interdisciplinary Case Study of the Shurkul Lake Landscape in Khorezm, Uzbekistan.

Transformation of the Khorezm region of Uzbekistan from forested to agricultural landscapes resulted in the formation of hundreds of lakes, the dynamics of which are largely controlled by inputs from irrigation runoff waters. The importance of the ecological and socio-cultural dimensions of one of t...

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Main Authors: Lisa Oberkircher, Margaret Shanafield, Bashorat Ismailova, Laurel Saito
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Resilience Alliance 2011-12-01
Series:Ecology and Society
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Online Access:http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol16/iss4/art20/