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Enviromental History of the Aral Sea Basin in the Post-War Soviet Period: Human Activities and Ecological Crisis

Research Project

Project/Area Number 25870003
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Research Field Area studies
Economic history
Research InstitutionHokkaido University

Principal Investigator

CHIDA Tetsuro  北海道大学, スラブ・ユーラシア研究センター, 助教 (10612012)

Research Collaborator KUBOTA Jumpei  総合地球環境学研究所, 副所長/教授
KAWABATA Yoshiko  東京農工大学, 農学府, 准教授
ALADIN Nikolai  ロシア科学アカデミー動物学研究所, 教授
ERMAKHANOV Zaurkhan  カザフ漁業研究所, アラル支部, 支部長
JOLLIBEKOV Bakhtiyol  タシケント農業大学, ヌクス校, 教授
NURTAZIN Sabyr  カザフ国立大学, 教授
Project Period (FY) 2013-04-01 – 2017-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2016)
Budget Amount *help
¥4,420,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,020,000)
Fiscal Year 2016: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000)
Keywords環境史 / 中央アジア / 災害 / 環境政策 / アラル海 / ソ連史 / カザフスタン / 地域研究 / 開発と環境 / ウズベキスタン
Outline of Final Research Achievements

The project was aimed on the comprehensive study about the Aral Sea catastrophe in Central Asia from 1960s until today. The study mainly took the historical approach, based upon analysis of primary sources like archival documents, newspapers and journals, as well as strove to multidisciplinarity, borrowing some aspects from several other disciplines. The research not only found out specific facts about the process of the disaster itself and the recovery from it, but disclosed the “politics of scale” related to the mitigation measures to the disaster and the future of the Aral Sea. The study also revealed temporal, functional and spatial “misfits” in the basin, which hindered the Soviet Union from taking preventive measures to preserve the status quo of the Aral Sea. The researcher also made field works around the damaged areas and investigated the contemporary situation of the socio-economic recovery of the region, which unfortunately posed some questions about its sustainability.

Report

(5 results)
  • 2016 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2015 Research-status Report
  • 2014 Research-status Report
  • 2013 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (30 results)

All 2016 2015 2014 2013 Other

All Int'l Joint Research (4 results) Journal Article (6 results) (of which Peer Reviewed: 3 results,  Acknowledgement Compliant: 1 results) Presentation (16 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 7 results,  Invited: 1 results) Remarks (4 results)

  • [Int'l Joint Research] カザフスタン国立大学/カザフ漁業研究所(カザフスタン)

    • Related Report
      2016 Annual Research Report
  • [Int'l Joint Research] ロシア科学アカデミー動物学研究所/ロシア科学アカデミー図書館/ロシア科学アカデミー東洋学研究所(ロシア連邦)

    • Related Report
      2015 Research-status Report
  • [Int'l Joint Research] カザフ漁業研究所(カザフスタン)

    • Related Report
      2015 Research-status Report
  • [Int'l Joint Research] タシケント農業大学ヌクス校(ウズベキスタン)

    • Related Report
      2015 Research-status Report
  • [Journal Article] アラル海災害の顕在化と小アラル海漁業への初期対応策2015

    • Author(s)
      地田徹朗
    • Journal Title

      大塚健司編『アジアの生態危機と持続可能性:フィールドからのサステイナビリティ論』アジア経済研究所

      Volume: - Pages: 191-236

    • Related Report
      2014 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Acknowledgement Compliant
  • [Journal Article] ソ連時代の開発と環境:社会主義的近代化とその顛末2015

    • Author(s)
      地田徹朗
    • Journal Title

      宇山智彦、藤本透子編著『カザフスタンを知る60章』明石書店

      Volume: - Pages: 127-131

    • Related Report
      2014 Research-status Report
  • [Journal Article] 'Trust in Cadres' and the Party-Based Control in Central Asia during the Brezhnev Era2014

    • Author(s)
      Tetsuro CHIDA
    • Journal Title

      Sophie Hohmann et al., eds., Development in Central Asia and the Caucasus: Migration, Democratisation and Inequality in the Post Soviet Era (London: I. B. Tauris)

      Volume: - Pages: 47-79

    • Related Report
      2014 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] アラル海の過去・現在・未来―2013年1月~2月、カザフスタン巡検、八人の証言―2014

    • Author(s)
      地田徹朗
    • Journal Title

      境界研究

      Volume: 特別号 Pages: 69-85

    • NAID

      120005745390

    • Related Report
      2013 Research-status Report
  • [Journal Article] Science, Development and Modernization in the Brezhnev years: The Water Development in the Lake Balkhash Basin2014

    • Author(s)
      Tetsuro Chida
    • Journal Title

      Cahiers du monde russe

      Volume: Vol. 53, No. 1-2 Pages: 239-264

    • Related Report
      2013 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] 小アラル海漁業の現在:湖水位の回復とその後2013

    • Author(s)
      地田徹朗
    • Journal Title

      アジ研 ワールド・トレンド

      Volume: 第214号 Pages: 23-27

    • Related Report
      2013 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] ペレストロイカと環境問題:アラル海救済策をめぐる政策決定過程2016

    • Author(s)
      地田徹朗
    • Organizer
      ロシア史研究会2016年年次大会
    • Place of Presentation
      東北大学(宮城県仙台市)
    • Year and Date
      2016-10-08
    • Related Report
      2016 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] The Post-Disaster Recovery in the Aral Sea Region and the Transboundary Water Cooperation2016

    • Author(s)
      Tetsuro Chida
    • Organizer
      International Symposium “Trans-boundary Water Resources Cooperation in Asia: Progress and Prospect”
    • Place of Presentation
      Fudan University (Shanghai, China)
    • Year and Date
      2016-08-13
    • Related Report
      2016 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
  • [Presentation] Mitigation Measures for Socio-Ecological Degradation in the Socialist Manner: The Aral Sea Fishery in Kazakhstan during the 1970s2016

    • Author(s)
      Tetsuro Chida
    • Organizer
      International Conference “Empires of Water: Water Management and Politics in the Arid Regions of China, Central Eurasia and the Middle East (16th-20th centuries)”
    • Place of Presentation
      Lingnan University (Hong Kong, China)
    • Year and Date
      2016-05-27
    • Related Report
      2016 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] The Aral Sea Disaster and Politics of Scale2016

    • Author(s)
      Tetsuro Chida
    • Organizer
      15th Border Regions in Transition (BRIT) Conference
    • Place of Presentation
      HafenCity University (Hamburg, Germany)
    • Year and Date
      2016-05-18
    • Related Report
      2016 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Disaster Recovery on the Borderland in the Small Aral Sea (Kazakhstan)2016

    • Author(s)
      Tetsuro Chida
    • Organizer
      57th Annual Conference of Association for Borderlands Studies
    • Place of Presentation
      Grand Sierra Resort & Casino (Reno, NV, USA)
    • Year and Date
      2016-04-15
    • Related Report
      2016 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] The Aral Sea Disaster and Initial Mitigation Measures by the Soviet Government2015

    • Author(s)
      Tetsuro Chida
    • Organizer
      The Third Conference of East Asian Environmental History
    • Place of Presentation
      香川大学(香川県高松市)
    • Year and Date
      2015-10-24
    • Related Report
      2015 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Initial Mitigation Measures for Fishermen in the Aral Sea Crisis during the 1970-80s: The Case of Kazakhstan2015

    • Author(s)
      Tetsuro Chida
    • Organizer
      International Council for Central and East European Studies (ICCEES) IX World Congress
    • Place of Presentation
      神田外国語大学(千葉県千葉市)
    • Year and Date
      2015-08-07
    • Related Report
      2015 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] アラル海災害からの復興と小アラル海漁業2015

    • Author(s)
      地田徹朗、ザウルハン・エルマハノフ
    • Organizer
      日本沙漠学会第26回学術大会
    • Place of Presentation
      カレッジプラザ(秋田県秋田市)
    • Year and Date
      2015-05-24
    • Related Report
      2015 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] The Aral Sea Disaster and (Re-)bordering Process2015

    • Author(s)
      Tetsuro Chida
    • Organizer
      57th Annual Conference of Association for Borderlands Studies
    • Place of Presentation
      Portland Marriott Downtown Waterfront (Portland, OR, USA)
    • Year and Date
      2015-04-10
    • Related Report
      2015 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] アラル海災害からの「復興」と小アラル海漁業2015

    • Author(s)
      地田徹朗
    • Organizer
      日本中央アジア学会2014年度年次大会
    • Place of Presentation
      KKR江ノ島ニュー向洋、藤沢市
    • Year and Date
      2015-03-29
    • Related Report
      2014 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] The Revival of the Small Aral Sea and Its Fishery2014

    • Author(s)
      Tetsuro CHIDA
    • Organizer
      International Conference “Changing Patterns of Power in Historical and Modern Central and Inner Asia,” organized by International Institute for Asian Studies (Netherland)
    • Place of Presentation
      Ulaanbaatar University, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
    • Year and Date
      2014-08-09
    • Related Report
      2014 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Cooperation or Conflict? Water and Political Balances between Russia, Kazakhstan and China2014

    • Author(s)
      Tetsuro CHIDA
    • Organizer
      Association for Borderlands Studies First World Conference
    • Place of Presentation
      University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu, Finland
    • Year and Date
      2014-06-10
    • Related Report
      2014 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] ‘Transformation of Nature’ Concept and Water Development in Central Asia: the Case of the Ili-Balkhash Basin

    • Author(s)
      Tetsuro Chida
    • Organizer
      International Council for Central and East European Studies, European Congress
    • Place of Presentation
      Churchill College, University of Cambridge (Cambridge, United Kingdom)
    • Related Report
      2013 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] アラル海救済の現代史―対策の遅れとその要因

    • Author(s)
      地田徹朗
    • Organizer
      比較経済体制学会
    • Place of Presentation
      新潟大学五十嵐キャンパス(新潟市)
    • Related Report
      2013 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] ‘Transformation of Nature’ Concept by Geographers and Agricultural-Water Development in Soviet Central Asia

    • Author(s)
      Tetsuro Chida
    • Organizer
      International Geographic Union (IGU) 2013 Kyoto Regional Conference
    • Place of Presentation
      Kyoto International Conference Center (Kyoto, Japan)
    • Related Report
      2013 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Why the Aral Sea Could Not Be Saved? Socialistic Irrationalities and General ‘Misfits’

    • Author(s)
      Tetsuro Chida
    • Organizer
      Fifth East Asian Conference on Slavic Eurasian Studies
    • Place of Presentation
      Osaka University of Economics and Law (Yao, Japan)
    • Related Report
      2013 Research-status Report
  • [Remarks] BRIT XV ドイツ・ハンブルグとデンマーク・セナボーで開催

    • URL

      http://src-h.slav.hokudai.ac.jp/ubrj/whats-new/archives/201605/20262.html

    • Related Report
      2016 Annual Research Report
  • [Remarks] ICCEES IX 幕張大会参加記:国際会議でのパネル 組織の楽しさ

    • URL

      http://src-home.slav.hokudai.ac.jp/jp/news/142/CNews142.pdf

    • Related Report
      2015 Research-status Report
  • [Remarks] UBRJホームページ:プロジェクト

    • URL

      http://src-h.slav.hokudai.ac.jp/ubrj/projects/

    • Related Report
      2014 Research-status Report
  • [Remarks] 地域研究コンソーシアム次世代WS「ユーラシアにおける境界と環境・社会」開催される

    • URL

      http://src-h.slav.hokudai.ac.jp/ubrj/whats-new/archives/201502/12123.html

    • Related Report
      2014 Research-status Report

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