Challenging Environmental Issues

Middle Eastern Perspective
Erscheinungsjahr 1997
ISBN: 978-90-04-10877-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 68, 170 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 327 g

Reihe: International Studies in Sociology and Social Anthropology

This volume is the result of the co-author's keen interest in better understanding the environmental problems faced by all countries in the Middle East. It is also the result of the co-authors' deep commitment to urge Middle Eastern citizens and their leaders to work together for better protection of their precious and fragile environment so that it may be saved for the enjoyment and safety of future generations.
In the Middle East, geography and arid and simi-arid climatic conditions have led to a concentration of people in coastal zones and river valleys with acute water shortages, water and air pollution, increasing soil erosion, and intensifying desertification all creating serious environmental challenges. All these issues are addressed by eight leading scholars in eight chapters which include Jordan, Oman, Lebanon, Israel, Sudan, the Arabian Gulf, Iran, Syria.

Contributors are Badria A. Al-Awadhi, Joseph G. Jabra, Nancy W. Jabra, Jamil E. Jreisat, Joseph A. Keckichian, Alon Tal, Rania Masri, Damazo Dut Majak, Gloria Ibrahim Saliba, and Seid M. Zekavat.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Jabbra, Joseph G.

Jabbra, Nancy W.

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltverschmutzung, Umweltkriminalität, Umweltrecht
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophische Anthropologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Challenging Environmental Issues: Middle Eastern Perspectives, Joseph G. Jabra and Nancy W. Jabra

Environmental Management: The Will and the Way in Jordan, Jamil E. Jreisat

Emerging Environmental Concerns: A Perspective from the Sultanate of Oman, Joseph A. Keckichian

The State of the Environment in Iran, Seid M. Zekavat

Environmental Challenges in Lebanon, Rania Masri

An Imperiled Promised Land: The Antecedents of Israel’s Environmental Crises and Prospects for Progress, Alon Tal

Rape of Nature: The Environmental Destruction and Ethnic Cleansing of the Sudan, Damazo Dut Majak

Regional Instruments for the Protection of the Marine Environment in the Arabian Gulf, Badria A. Al-Awadhi

Managing Resources, Its Socioeconomic and Environmental Co9nsequences: The Case of Syria, Gloria Ibrahim Saliba

Contributors

Über Autor(innen)

Joseph G. Jabbra and Nancy W. Jabbra are specialists on the Middle East. They both received their Ph.D. degrees from the Catholic University of America and have scores of publication to their credit. They are both established at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles where Dr. Joseph G. Jabbra is the Academic Vice President and Professor of Political Science and International Law, and Dr. Nancy Jabbra is Director and Professor of Women's Studies.