Vital Caspian Graphics - Challenges Beyond Caviar

Table of contents

 Introduction
 Foreword
 A sea of many ambitions
 Cyclic fluctuations in the level of the Caspian Sea
 Big projects, big consequences
 The marks of human activity
 KOSHKAR-ATA LAKE CASE STUDY: The hazardous legacy of an uranium mine
 Journalist Story 01: Paul Brown in Atyrau, Kazakhstan, The Guardian, 4 December 2002. Oil money threatens to make killing fields of Kazakhstan
 Journalist Story 02: By Amina Jalilova, Novoye Pokolenie, 2004. Who will take care of drowning oil wells?
 Population and Health
 Journalist Story 03: By Kieran Cooke, BBC, Azerbaijan, May 2005. Azerbaijan’s post-industrial hangover.
 Ecosystems paying the price
 Journalist Story 04: Antoine Blua, a EurasiaNet partner post from RFE/RL, 7 March 2004. Caspian: Invasion of killer jellyfish threatens fish stocks.
 Journalist Story 05: By Michel Viatteau, Agence France Presse, 5 May 2002. Not enough caviar left for all the poachers.
 Environment and security – a fragile balance
 References for text