Aral Sea Basin

Stefanos Xenarios is Associate Professor in Nazarbayev University (NU), Graduate School of Public Policy, based in Nur-Sultan, Astana, Kazakhstan.Dietrich Schmidt-Vogt is Honorary Professor at the Chair of Silviculture, Faculty of Environment and Natural Resources, Freiburg University, Germany.Manzoor Qadir is Assistant Director in United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH), Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.Barbara Janusz-Pawletta is UNESCO Chair Holder in Water Management at the Central Asia Kazakh-German University, Almaty, Kazakhstan.Iskandar Abdullaev is former Executive Director of the Regional Environmental Centre Central Asia (CAREC), based in Almaty, Kazakhstan, and the current Deputy Director of the CAREC Institute, Urumchi, China.

• Foreword by Guyzgeldi Bayjanov 1. Introduction 2. History of Water Management in the Aral Sea Basin 3. Surface Water Resources 4. Groundwater resources 5. Hydropower 6. Environmental Degradation 7. Water for Agriculture and other Economic Sectors 8. The Status and Role of the alpine Cryosphere in the Aral Sea Basin 9. Transboundary Water Management 10. Local and national institutions and policies governing water resources management 11. International actors and initiatives for sustainable water management 12. The Future of Water Resources 13. Implementing Water-Related Sustainable Development Goals

"While a lot has been written and said about water management (and mismanagement) in this region before, there is hardly an analogue that brings all these issues under one umbrella. This is essentially the first multidisciplinary volume on the subject… This Book will hopefully become a reference source on the Aral Sea basin for a wide range of stakeholders from different disciplines and professional backgrounds, from within the Central Asia region and internationally." - From the Foreword by Guyzgeldi Bayjanov, Chairman of the Executive Committee of The International Fund for Saving the Aral Sea