The Middle East water question
Subtitle: hydropolitics and the global economy
By: Tony Allan.
Publisher: I.B. Tauris
Published: 2000
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 382
Subjects: Water-supply -- Middle East.; Water-supply -- Political aspects -- Middle East.; Water rights -- Middle East.; Water resources development -- Political aspects -- Middle East.
Other titles: Hydropolitics and the global economy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 343-374) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: I; title: Part One; title: MENA water resources, allocation, management; title: and perception; title: 1 Water optimists and water pessimists: insiders and; title: outsiders and an analytical framework; title: 2 The resource: the supply; title: Part Two; title: Economic and environmental imperatives ignored:; title: and why they are ignored; title: 3 Water is an economic resource: the economist's view; title: 4 Water is not an economic resource: the political; title: economy of some MENA waters; title: 5 Water, development and the environment; title: Part Three; title: Water: international relations and law; title: 6 Water in regional and international relations; title: 7 Water law and international water law in the; title: Middle East and North Africa; title: Part Four; title: The future; title: 8 The future role of water in the Middle East and; title: North African society; title: Glossary and abbreviations; title: References; title: Index.