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La laguna Mar Chiquita, en el noreste de la provincia de Córdoba, es el mayor lago de Argentina y el quinto lago salino del mundo. Constituye un área de gran riqueza en biodiversidad y uno de los atractivos turísticos mas importantes del centro de Argentina. Junto con los Bañados del Río Dulce constituyen un humedal de grandes dimensiones (uno de los mayores del mundo) y una nota muy singular del paisaje de la región pampeana argentina.

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The overarching goal of SuMaRiO is to support oasis management along the Tarim River under conditions of climatic and societal changes. A main result envisaged is to develop an indicator-based Decision Support System (DSS) that allows a Sustainability Impact Assessment (SIA) within regional planning. This SIA will take into account the perspectives of all relevant actors and consider relevant Ecosystem Services (ESS) in the problem field of land and water management in the Tarim River Basin. The perspectives will be obtained and analyzed through a transdisciplinary research process. Then, under given scenario assumptions, possible actions and their impacts are estimated.

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Lake Balkhash, in Kazakhstan, is the largest moderately saline lake of Central Asia. The lake has a surface area of over 16 000 km2, a length of 600 km and its width varies from five to 70 km. Its drainage basin of approximately 413.000 km2 is situated in southeastern Kazakhstan (85%) and northwestern China (15%). The western half of the Lake is freshwater, while the eastern half is salt water. The average depth of the lake is six metres, though its maximum depth reaches 26 metres.