Transformations of Middle Eastern natural environments
Subtitle: legacies and lessons
By: Jane Coppock and Joseph A. Miller, bulletin series editors; Jeff Albert, Magnus Bernhardsson, and Roger Kenna, volume editors.
Contributors: Albert, Jeff.; Yale Center for International and Area Studies. Council on Middle East Studies.
Series: Bulletin series / Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies -- no. 103.; Bulletin series (Yale University. School of Forestry and Environmental Studies) -- no. 103.
Publisher: Yale University
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New Haven, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 498
Subjects: Environmental management -- Middle East.; Environmental protection -- Middle East.; Middle East -- Environmental conditions.
Table of contents: title: Introduction -- Jeff Albert, Magnus Bernhardsson, and Roger Kenna; title: Middle Eastern irrigation : legacies and lessons -- Peter Christensen; title: Biodiversity and sustainable agriculture in the Fertile Crescent -- A. A. Jaradat; title: Use of land by Nomadic pastoralists in Iran : 1970-1998 -- Lois Beck; title: Gender, pastoralism, and intensification : changing environmental resource use in Morocco -- Susanne H. Steinmann; title: Environmental degradation in eastern Turkey : the case of contract farming -- Behrooz Morvaridi; title: Monitoring desert locusts in the Middle East : an overview -- Keith Cressman; title: "Virtual water" : an essential element in stabilizing the political economies of the Middle East -- J. A. Allan; title: Playing chicken on the Nile? The implications of microdam development in the Ethiopian Highlands and Egypt's New Valley Project -- John Waterbury and Dale Whittington; title: Restructuring of water usage in the Tigris-Euphrates basin : the impact of modern water management policies -- Peter Beaumont; title: Qanats and lifeworlds in Iranian plateau villages -- Paul Ward English; title: Disease and water supply : the case of cholera in 19th century Iran -- Amir A. Afkhami; title: Hydrostrategic decisionmaking and the Arab-Israeli conflict -- Aaron T. Wolf; title: Water agreements between Israel and its neighbors -- Uri Shamir; title: Toward a unified management regime in the Jordan basin : the Johnston Plan revisited -- Sharif S. Elmusa; title: Cultural ecology, perceptions of nature and the advent of monotheism in the ancient Middle East : an hypothesis -- Daniel Hillel; title: Gardens of Eden : exotic flora and fauna in the ancient Near East -- Karen Polinger Foster; title: Between paradise and political capital : the semiotics of Safavid Isfahan -- Heidi A. Walcher; title: Rethinking the Islamic garden -- Attilio Petruccioli; title: Middle Eastern marine environments : an overview of anthropogenic impacts -- Menakhem Ben-Yami; title: Impact of Red Sea fish migrants through the Suez Canal on the aquatic environment of the eastern Mediterranean -- Daniel Golani; title: Fisheries development in the Arab world -- Izzat H. Feidi; title: Assessment of damages to commercial fisheries and marine environments of Fujairah, United Arab Emirates, resulting from the Seki Oil spill of March 1994 : a case study -- Walter H. Pearson, Saif M. Al-Ghais, Jerry M. Neff ... (et al.); title: Global climate variations over the past 250 years : relationships with the Middle East -- Michael E. Mann and Raymond S. Bradley; title: Rapid population growth and the fertility policies of the Arab countries -- Onn Winckler; title: Monitoring the distribution, use, and regeneration of natural resources in semi-arid southwest Asia-- Nicholas Kouchoukos, Ronald Smith, Art Gleason ...(et al.).