22 Mar 2002

Environmental country profiles for Central Asia
World Resources Institute (WRI), Washington, DC, USA
Self-description: "WRI provides easily accessible and accurate information on environmental, social, and economic trends for all regions of the globe. In this section, WRI draws from its much larger collection of information posted on EarthTrends (http://earthtrends.wri.org/) to provide a specific look at Central Asia.
Site contents: * Environmental country profiles [for Afghanistan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan Pakistan,Tajikistan,Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan]: Biodiversity and Protected Areas, Forests and Grasslands, Coastal and Marine Areas, Agriculture and Food, Freshwater, Atmosphere and Climate, Energy and Resource Use, Population and Human Development, Economic Indicators; * [Annotated maps of] watersheds for: Amu Darya, Indus, Kura-Araks, Lake Balkhash, Syr Darya, Tigris and Euphrates; * Data tables: Emissions from fossil fuel burning and cement manufacturing, Food and agriculture production.
[Documents and data are in PDF format - ed.]
URL http://www.wri.org/central_asia/index.html
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/www.wri.org/central_asia/index.html
Link reported by: Nelson Wong (vlmy_editor@time.net.my)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study/Documents
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: V.Useful
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30