The Overexploitation of Natural Resources in Arid Central Asia. The Case of Hungry Steppe: Can a Collapse be a Solution?

The paper aims to provide a postdictive answer to why Central Asia is continuously investing or aspiring to invest in irrigation infrastructure and further contributing to the overexploitation of renewable and non-renewable endowments of its steppe zones even when the conventional economic rationale...

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Published in:	International Journal of the Commons
Main Author:	Iroda Amirova
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Utrecht University Library Open Access Journals (Publishing Services) 2022-06-01
Subjects:	hungry-steppe investment irrigation infrastructure overexploitation sunk-cost effect collapse
Online Access:	https://www.thecommonsjournal.org/articles/1144