Water Scarcity Land Degradation And Desertification In The Mediterranean Region

Author : Jose Rubio,Uriel Safriel,Raul Daussa,Winfried Blum,Fausto Pedrazzini
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2009-05-03
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789048125265

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Water Scarcity, Land Degradation and Desertification in the Mediterranean Region by Jose Rubio,Uriel Safriel,Raul Daussa,Winfried Blum,Fausto Pedrazzini Pdf

Based on the suggestions made by the speakers of Plenary Session IV “Ch- lenges to the management of water resources and to countering deserti cation in the Mediterranean region” during the 15th Economic and Environmental Forum, the OCEEA proposed to organize a workshop on “Water Scarcity, Land Degra- tion and Deserti cation in the Mediterranean region – Environment and Security Aspects”. In order to build on common synergies, OSCE sought co-operation with c- leagues from NATO, in particular from the Science for Peace and Security P- gramme. NATO has a longstanding expertise on the issue and had organised in Valencia, in December 2003, a NATO scienti c workshop on “Deserti cation and Security in the Mediterranean Region”. The objective of the new proposed wo- shop would be to broaden its focus from the scienti c community to include also policy makers. 1 The workshop, aimed at government of cials from the Mediterranean Region, gathered representatives of Water management, Land degradation and Desert- cation Departments of Ministries of Environment and representatives from the Ministries of Foreign Affairs. In addition, policy makers, scientists and experts were also invited. The aim was to discuss how the OSCE, NATO and other c- petent organizations like the UNCCD, UNEP, MAP, and the EU could play a role in ensuring that environment and security linkages in terms of water scarcity, land degradation and deserti cation are addressed in the Mediterranean Region.

Author : N. A. Geeson,C. J. Brandt,J. B. Thornes
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2003-04-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780470856864

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Mediterranean Desertification by N. A. Geeson,C. J. Brandt,J. B. Thornes Pdf

Desertification includes land degradation due to both climatic and anthropogenic causes, where land includes water, soil, and the biosphere. This book presents the most recent findings from the European Community's MEDALUS project, which was formed to understand and manage semi-arid environments that are undergoing great change. * Covers climate and land use processes and responses in the Mediterranean * First book to provide guidelines for the management of land degradation in Mediterranean environments * Based on first-hand experience of the problems by those responsible for solving them

Author : Antonio Marquina
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789400709737

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Environmental Challenges in the Mediterranean 2000–2050 by Antonio Marquina Pdf

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 : W.G. Kepner,Jose L. Rubio,David A. Mouat,Fausto Pedrazzini
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 593 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2006-01-04
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781402037603

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Desertification in the Mediterranean Region. A Security Issue by W.G. Kepner,Jose L. Rubio,David A. Mouat,Fausto Pedrazzini Pdf

This book provides a multi-lateral forum for cooperation, information exchange, and dialogue among the environmental, development, foreign and security policy communities within the Mediterranean Region and thus may provide a precedent for further cooperation and partnership, including other more advanced conferences and publications, on assessing the condition of the entire region and the subsequent impacts and linkages to environmental security.

Author : Anton Imeson
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2012-01-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781119978480

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Desertification, Land Degradation and Sustainability by Anton Imeson Pdf

Desertification offers a comprehensive overview of the subject and clearly emphasizes the link between local and global desertification processes and how past and current policy has affected arid environments and their populations. This text adequately applies the research undertaken during the last 15 years on the topic. Desertification has become increasingly politicized and there is a need to present and explain the facts from a global perspective. This book tackles the issues surrounding desertification in a number of ways from differing scales (local to global), processes (physical to human), the relationship of desertification to current global development and management responses at different scales. Desertification has been mainstreamed and integrated into other areas of concern and has consequently been ignored as a cross cutting issue. The book redresses this balance. Making use of much original data and information that has been undertaken by many scientists andpractitioners during the last decade in different parts of the world, Desertification, Land Degradation and Sustainability is organised according to the principles of adaptive management and hierarchy theory and clearly explains desertification within a framework of evolving and interacting physical and socio-economic systems. In addition to research data the book also draws from the National Action Plans of different countries, the IPCC Fourth Assessment on Climate Change and the Millennium assessments. Clearly structured throughout, the content of the book is organised at different scales; local, regional and global. It also specifically explains processes linking top-down and bottom- up interactions and has a strong human component. The historical, cultural and physical context is also stressed. Clearly organised into the following distinct sections: a) Concepts and processes b) Data c) Impacts d) Responses e) Case studies. This text is essential for anyone studying desertification as part of an earth and environmental science degree.

Author : Antonio Marquina Barrio
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2004-02-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1402019491

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Environmental Challenges in the Mediterranean 2000-2050 by Antonio Marquina Barrio Pdf

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 : Andrea Scozzari,Bouabid El Mansouri
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2011-08-28
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789400716254

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Water Security in the Mediterranean Region by Andrea Scozzari,Bouabid El Mansouri Pdf

The role of water in our communities, from local to regional and right up to global levels, poses a series of key questions about climate change, about the anthropogenic impact on the environment, and about all the interconnected actions and events that affect the availability and quality of the resource. All these questions share a common demand for more scientific knowledge and information. In this particular context the disciplinary boundaries are fading, and there is a growing need to create broader connections and wider collaborative interdisciplinary groups, aimed at building an integrated knowledge-base to serve not only stakeholders but also the whole of society. Only in this way can we hope to respond effectively to the challenges and changing dynamics of human-hydrologic systems. Following this concept, contributors from multiple disciplinary backgrounds, such as Law Studies, Hydrogeology, Monitoring and Information Technologies, Geophysics, Geochemistry, Environmental Sciences, Systems Engineering, Economics and Social Studies, joined forces and interacted in this workshop. The present book reports the proceedings of this three-day ARW (Advanced Research Workshop), and explores different aspects of the environmental security assessment process, focusing on the assessment, monitoring and management of water resources, and giving an overview of the related scientific knowledge.

Author : Paola Mairota,J. B. Thornes,N. A. Geeson
Publisher : Wiley
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1997-12-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 0471960926

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Atlas of Mediterranean Environments in Europe by Paola Mairota,J. B. Thornes,N. A. Geeson Pdf

The Mediterranean countries of Europe have been undergoing rapid change and development over the last thirty years and especially during the last ten. These changes have occurred in all aspects of life and livelihood, and for many countries such change has had far reaching social and economic impacts. In addition, the results of centuries of distinctive man environment relationships in a climatically marginal region have been swept aside and the landscape itself is undergoing a rapid transformation. Large areas are being abandoned temporarily or permanently by rural populations; urban growth is rampant; agriculture has been intensified; and water scarcity, fed by the severe droughts of the 1980s and 1990s, has become a major environmental and resource concern. At the same time the threat of global climate change and the indication of deeper and more sustained future droughts has brought these issues into sharp focus. Based on the findings of the European Community s Medalus Project, this Atlas brings to a wide audience the background to and a contemporary understanding of the environmental crisis, which is now facing the Mediterranean region of Europe, as well as the future prospects for a solution.

Author : C. Jane Brandt,John B. Thornes
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1996-12-09
Category : Nature
ISBN : UOM:39015038545250

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Mediterranean Desertification and Land Use by C. Jane Brandt,John B. Thornes Pdf

Desertification of land degradation has become a major environmental issue in scientific and political circles. This product of the MEDALUS project forms an important part of the EU's initiative to manage changing semi-arid environments.

Author : Tammo Steenhuis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781317103394

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Losing Paradise by Tammo Steenhuis Pdf

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 : Graciela Schneier-Madanes,Marie-Francoise Courel
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2009-12-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789048127764

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Water and Sustainability in Arid Regions by Graciela Schneier-Madanes,Marie-Francoise Courel Pdf

International voices fill the pages of Water and Sustainability in Arid Regions, forming an original scientific exploration of current water research and management issues. In arid regions, agriculture that is ill-adapted to the environment, accelerated urbanization, poverty, and increasing pollution challenge access to and uses of water. Understanding these issues requires incorporating findings from both the physical and social sciences at different temporal and spatial scales. The chapters in this book were written by hydrologists, remote sensing specialists, ecologists, historians, economists, political scientists, architects, archaeologists, and other experts who live in and study arid lands. The authors present updates, overviews, and analyses of water challenges these areas have faced and are striving to address, from salinization in the fabled Taklimakan Desert in China to land degradation in the northern Mediterranean to groundwater over-exploitation in the southwestern United States. The book also examines desertification, remote sensing, qanat systems, architecture, arsenic contamination, and other case studies from Iran, the Maghreb region, Argentina and Chile, and Mexico. From this conceptual mosaic of comparative perspectives and research methods emerges a strong assumption: an interdisciplinary approach that combines physical and social sciences is the first step toward globally and comprehensively addressing water and sustainability."This book is a valuable and welcome contribution to the discussion of water and sustainable development. Through the collection of chapters, the book clearly illustrates the contemporary diversity of approaches to water scarcity and presents pertinent and new research findings that readers generally do not find compiled together. The result is a highly relevant, accessible, and timely resource that is unique in its international and interdisciplinary content. This is a must-read for anyone working on environmental and sustainability issues in arid lands."André Mariotti, University Pierre et Marie Curie, and INSU - CNRS (National Institute for Earth Sciences and Astronomy-National Center for Scientific Research/Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique), France "Anyone who reads this book will find himself or herself contemplating the need to rethink how we approach the issue of water and sustainability in arid lands. Drawing on the expertise of both physical and social scientists, the chapters taken as a whole present global, historic, and current perspectives on water scarcity in a multi-layered way that rarely has been done before." Miguel Solanes, Madrid Water Institute, Spain

Author : Arthur J. Conacher,Maria Sala
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1998-06-11
Category : Nature
ISBN : UOM:39015045681817

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Land Degradation in Mediterranean Environments of the World by Arthur J. Conacher,Maria Sala Pdf

This volume provides an assessment of the land degradation in the Mediterranean regions. It examines the nature of the world's Mediterranean-type climatic environment and explores the problem of land degradation.

Author : J. L. Rubio,R. J. Rickson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : CHI:47653323

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Strategies to Combat Desertification in Mediterranean Europe by J. L. Rubio,R. J. Rickson Pdf

Author : Sergi Sabater,Damià Barceló
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2010-05-12
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783642039706

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Water Scarcity in the Mediterranean by Sergi Sabater,Damià Barceló Pdf

Water scarcity affects hydrologic resources, systems connectivity, biodiversity, water quality, and river ecosystem functioning. It has direct impacts on economic sectors that use and depend on water, such as agriculture, tourism, industry, energy and transport. The Mediterranean Basin is one of the regions in the world most vulnerable to climate changes, as well as one of the most impacted by human water demand. This volume provides an in-depth view of the water quality and quantity implications of water scarcity. It highlights its possible causes and describes the effects in regions under Mediterranean climate. The topics covered include climate effects, water resources (use, storage and new sources), water quality (chemical and microbiological), and the effects on ecosystems suffering from water scarcity. This book is addressed to scientists and students, but also to managers involved in the necessary decision making process to face future periods of drought.

Author : Selim Kapur,Sabit Erşahin
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08-27
Category : Law
ISBN : 9783319006994

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Soil Security for Ecosystem Management by Selim Kapur,Sabit Erşahin Pdf

The term "Soil Security" is used in the context of maintaining the quality and quantity of soil needed in order to ensure continuous supplies of food and fresh water for our society. Topics in this unique book on the management of soil sustainability in the Mediterranean region include: soil information, land degradation, land desertification, pedoenvironments, and the carbon cycle and sequestration. One main focus of the book is the description of new approaches that have been adapted with regards to interdisciplinary soil ecosystem management to combat and mitigate desertification. The contributing authors are renowned experts in their fields which cover the subjects on traditional as well as innovative land use and management.