Overview
- Summarizes the study results on water in the Middle East and North Africa by several leading research groups
- Provides background information on the current conflicts in this region
- Comprehensive overview on the topic
- Includes case studies
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Freshwater is the most precious and valuable natural resource essential for all kind of life on the land surface. Especially man depend on the availability and quality of the water, it is vital for the socio-economic growth of societies and nations as well as for the sustainability of the environment. Freshwater resources are not distrib uted in an equal way over the continents. Regions with surplus facing areas with shortage or even lack of water. From their nature arid and semi-arid areas are char acterized by scarcity of water with all the affiliated unfavourable attributes. In the Middle East this lack of sufficient water coupled with the high growth rates of pop ulation constitutes serious water problems which has become e real political issue. The German-Arabic Society for Environmental Studies, Frankfurt, in co-opera tion with the Centre for Environmental Studies at the University Frankfurt has raised up this problems for a scientific discussion. With the Symposium on "Water of the Middle East and North Africa: Resources, Protection and Management" in Frankfurt on November 25 and 26, 2002 a platform was created, which enabled participants - scientists and politicians - from twelve countries to discuss the water problems facing the region. It was the intension of the organisers to deepen the knowledge about the hydrologic regimes, to increase our understanding of the complex integrated processes and to draw the necessary conclusions with regard to an integrated sustainable water management.
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Table of contents (30 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Water Resources
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Front Matter
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Water Protection
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Front Matter
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Reviews
From the reviews:
"This book is one of the few so far dealing with the very ‘hot’ topic of water resources in one of the most densely populated drought-prone areas of the world - already a source of tension and political conflict. … the technical quality of the book is fine and authors and editors have been attentive to the layout of graphics and tables, making these easy to read. … It is to the merit of the editors to have provided the community with this overview … ." (Environmental Geology, Vol. 46 (8), 2004)
"The Middle East has water problems caused by the scarcity of water coupled with the high growth rates of population. … This book presents a comprehensive overview of the current situation in the Middle East and North Africa. The water problem is described and discussed in four main chapters and different case studies, contributed by 39 scientists. … the book addresses experts as well as the interested public." (Tom Van Nieuwerburgh, International Journal of Environment and Pollution, Vol. 28 (1-2), 2006)
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Water in the Middle East and in North Africa
Book Subtitle: Resources, Protection and Management
Editors: Fathi Zereini, Wolfgang Jaeschke
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-10866-6
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2004
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-20771-9Published: 09 February 2004
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-05862-2Published: 30 November 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-3-662-10866-6Published: 09 March 2013
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 369
Topics: Hydrogeology, Environmental Management, Geoecology/Natural Processes, Waste Water Technology / Water Pollution Control / Water Management / Aquatic Pollution, Environmental Economics