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Author : International Development Research Centre (Canada)
Publisher : IDRC
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Water balance (Hydrology)
ISBN : 9780889369078
Water Balances in the Eastern Mediterranean
Author : Ozay Mehmet,Norman Paterson School of International Affairs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 22 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:46588124
Author : Tammo Steenhuis,Gail Holst-Warhaft
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781317103387
Taking a uniquely interdisciplinary view of the Eastern Mediterranean region's water problems, this book considers some of the technical and regulatory solutions being proposed or implemented to solve the difficulties of diminished or polluted water supplies. Stressing the importance of traditional and historical cultural understanding in addressing the water crisis, the authors demonstrate that what is required is an integrated legal, social and scientific management system appropriate to each country's stage of development and their cultural heritage. Using case studies from Lebanon, Italy, Spain, Egypt, Greece, Jordan and Cyprus, the authors focus on the urgency of the present crisis faced by each country and the need for cooperation. The suggested solutions also serve as a paradigm for the rest of the world as it faces similar issues of water shortage.
Author : P.M. Malanotte-Rizzoli,Valery N. Eremeev
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 521 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789401147965
This book is the outcome of a NATO Advanced Research Workshop on "The Eastern Mediterranean as a laboratory basin for the assessment of contrasting ecosystems" that was held in Kiev, Ukraine, March 23-27, 1998. The scientific rationale of the workshop can be summarized as follows. The Eastern Mediterranean is the most nutrient impoverished and oligotrophic large water body known. There is a well-defined eastward trend in nutrient ratios over the entire Mediterranean that starts at the Gibraltar Straits and, through the western basin, proceeds to the Ionian and Levantine Seas. Supply of nutrients to the entire Mediterranean is limited by inputs from the North Atlantic and various river systems along the sea. The unique feature of the Mediterranean is the presence of an eastward longitudinal trend in available nitrate/phosphate ratios. This apparently induces a west-to-east variation in the structure of the pelagic food web and trophic interactions. In this context the Mediterranean, and in particular its Eastern basin, provides probably a unique platform to explore the hypotheses related to the suggested phosphate-limitation on production and to the shift between "microbial" and "classical" modes of operation of the photic food web. The major exception of the overall oligotrophic nature of the Eastern Mediterranean is the highly eutrophic system of the Northern Adriatic Sea. Here, during the last two decades the discharges of the northern rivers (especially of the Po), together with municipal sewage, have led to a very marked increase of nutrients and subsequent imponent eutrophication events.
Author : Hillel Shuval,Hassan Dweik
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2007-07-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783540695097
This book presents various approaches to the resolution of the severe water resource issues of the Middle East, with particular emphasis on the Israeli-Palestinian water conflicts. The authors include leading Palestinian and Israeli water experts who have worked together on joint research projects aimed at building up mutual understanding and respect. The studies consider the various approaches that could be used to improve cooperation and solve the problems arising from conflicting interests.
Author : Ozay Mehmet,Hasan Ali Biçak
Publisher : IDRC
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780889369535
Modern and Traditional Irrigation Technologies in the Eastern Mediterranean
Author : Antonio Marquina
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789400709737
This book addresses six key factors that will affect environmental policies in the Mediterranean region during the next fifty years: population growth, climate change, soil erosion and desertification, water scarcity, food production, and urbanization and pollution. The authors assess these as potential sources of violent conflict. The interdisciplinary approach makes this a relevant and useful reference for a broad range of professionals, specialists and researchers.
Author : Matthias Finger,Ludivine Tamiotti,Jeremy Allouche
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780791482513
As the governance of transboundary rivers becomes a subject of growing importance due to the increasing pressure on freshwater resources, this timely collection examines water scarcity and efforts to better manage rivers and river basins. Most specialists agree that states face many institutional inadequacies when dealing with shared resources and that new governance mechanisms are needed to improve water management. Using case studies of the Aral Sea basin and the Danube, Euphrates, and Mekong river basins, the contributors develop a new approach to water governance: the concept of multi-governance, an effort to collectively solve public problems by involving a series of relevant actors from the local to the global level, such as institutions, states, civil society, and business.
Author : United Nations. Department of Technical Cooperation for Development
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Groundwater
ISBN : UOM:39015046437912
Author : Paola Malanotte-Rizzoli,Valery N. Eremeev
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1999-02-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 0792355857
This book is the outcome of a NATO Advanced Research Workshop on "The Eastern Mediterranean as a laboratory basin for the assessment of contrasting ecosystems" that was held in Kiev, Ukraine, March 23-27, 1998. The scientific rationale of the workshop can be summarized as follows. The Eastern Mediterranean is the most nutrient impoverished and oligotrophic large water body known. There is a well-defined eastward trend in nutrient ratios over the entire Mediterranean that starts at the Gibraltar Straits and, through the western basin, proceeds to the Ionian and Levantine Seas. Supply of nutrients to the entire Mediterranean is limited by inputs from the North Atlantic and various river systems along the sea. The unique feature of the Mediterranean is the presence of an eastward longitudinal trend in available nitrate/phosphate ratios. This apparently induces a west-to-east variation in the structure of the pelagic food web and trophic interactions. In this context the Mediterranean, and in particular its Eastern basin, provides probably a unique platform to explore the hypotheses related to the suggested phosphate-limitation on production and to the shift between "microbial" and "classical" modes of operation of the photic food web. The major exception of the overall oligotrophic nature of the Eastern Mediterranean is the highly eutrophic system of the Northern Adriatic Sea. Here, during the last two decades the discharges of the northern rivers (especially of the Po), together with municipal sewage, have led to a very marked increase of nutrients and subsequent imponent eutrophication events.
Author : Tammo Steenhuis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1138276898
Taking a uniquely interdisciplinary view of the Eastern Mediterranean region's water problems, this book considers some of the technical and regulatory solutions being proposed or implemented to solve the difficulties of diminished or polluted water supplies. Stressing the importance of traditional and historical cultural understanding in addressing the water crisis, the authors demonstrate that what is required is an integrated legal, social and scientific management system appropriate to each country's stage of development and their cultural heritage. Using case studies from Lebanon, Italy, Spain, Egypt, Greece, Jordan and Cyprus, the authors focus on the urgency of the present crisis faced by each country and the need for cooperation. The suggested solutions also serve as a paradigm for the rest of the world as it faces similar issues of water shortage.
Author : Arie S. Issar,Mattanyah Zohar
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2007-06-10
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783540698524
This survey of the ancient levels of lakes, rivers and the sea, as well as changes in the compositions of stalagmites and sediments reveals an astonishing correlation of climate changes with the emergence and collapse of civilizations in the Middle East. The authors conclude that climate change has been the decisive factor in the history surrounding the origins of the "cradle of civilization".
Author : Anonim
Publisher : ScholarlyEditions
Page : 1141 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781490109664
Issues in Global Environment—Freshwater and Marine Environments: 2013 Edition is a ScholarlyEditions™ book that delivers timely, authoritative, and comprehensive information about Continental Shelf Research. The editors have built Issues in Global Environment—Freshwater and Marine Environments: 2013 Edition on the vast information databases of ScholarlyNews.™ You can expect the information about Continental Shelf Research in this book to be deeper than what you can access anywhere else, as well as consistently reliable, authoritative, informed, and relevant. The content of Issues in Global Environment—Freshwater and Marine Environments: 2013 Edition has been produced by the world’s leading scientists, engineers, analysts, research institutions, and companies. All of the content is from peer-reviewed sources, and all of it is written, assembled, and edited by the editors at ScholarlyEditions™ and available exclusively from us. You now have a source you can cite with authority, confidence, and credibility. More information is available at http://www.ScholarlyEditions.com/.
Author : Roy H. Behnke,Michael Mortimore
Publisher : Springer
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783642160141
The question in the title of this book draws attention to the shortcomings of a concept that has become a political tool of global importance even as the scientific basis for its use grows weaker. The concept of desertification, it can be argued, has ceased to be analytically useful and distorts our understanding of social-environmental systems and their resiliency, particularly in poor countries with variable rainfall and persistent poverty. For better policy and governance, we need to reconsider the scientific justification for international attempts to combat desertification. Our exploration of these issues begins in the Sahel of West Africa, where a series of severe droughts at the end of the 20th century led to the global institutionalization of the idea of desertification. It now seems incontrovertible that these droughts were not caused primarily by local land use mismanagement, effectively terminating a long-standing policy and scientific debate. There is now an opportunity to treat this episode as an object lesson in the relationship between science, the formation of public opinion and international policy-making. Looking beyond the Sahel, the chapters in this book provide case studies from around the world that examine the use and relevance of the desertification concept. Despite an increasingly sophisticated understanding of dryland environments and societies, the uses now being made of the desertification concept in parts of Asia exhibit many of the shortcomings of earlier work done in Africa. It took scientists more than three decades to transform a perceived desertification crisis in the Sahel into a non-event. This book is an effort to critically examine that experience and accelerate the learning process in other parts of the world.
Author : Arie S. Issar,Mattanyah Zohar
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783662062647
This survey of ancient levels of lakes, rivers and sea, and changes in stalagmites and sediments shows an astonishing correlation between climate change and rise and fall of civilizations in the Middle East. Warm periods were characterized by aridization, economic crisis and mass migration. Cold periods brought abundant rain, prosperity and settlement. The authors conclude that climate change was the decisive factor in the origins of the "cradle of civilization".
