Author: Georges Mutin
Publisher: Ellipses Marketing
ISBN: 9782729865252
Category : Water resources development
Languages : fr
Pages : 176
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Sous le triple choc de la sécheresse, des pollutions, de la croissance spectaculaire des besoins consécutifs à l'augmentation de la population et à la croissance urbaine, la ressource naturelle que l'on croyait inépuisable, disponible à jamais, devient un bien économique rare. Le monde arabe est la région du monde où la disponibilité par habitant est la plus faible. Conflits et concurrences se multiplient pour le partage d'une ressource précieuse - mais parfois gaspillée - entre les différents utilisateurs. Ils ne feront que s'aviver dans les années à venir. Les discordes entre pays riverains des grands fleuves qui traversent le monde arabe, le Nil, le Tigre et l'Euphrate, sont de plus en plus difficiles à gérer. En Palestine, avec le contrôle des eaux du Jourdain, c'est une hydrostratégie qui est à l'oeuvre. Partout la ville, l'usine, les champs se disputent une eau de plus en plus coûteuse à mobiliser.
Author: Georges Mutin
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Category : Water resources development
Languages : fr
Pages : 172
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Author: Harmattan (Firme)
Publisher:
ISBN: 9782336683867
Category : Water-supply
Languages : en
Pages : 201
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Author: Markaz ad-Dirāsāt waʼl-Wat̲āʼiq al-Iqtiṣādīya waʼl-Qānūnīya waʼl-Iǧtimāʻīya (Cairo)
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Languages : fr
Pages : 239
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ISBN: 9782869061279
Category :
Languages : fr
Pages : 119
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Author: Mamdouh Shahin
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1402054149
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 594
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This book gives a unique portrait of the water resources in the Arab region dealing with climate and hydrology. It provides a historical introduction, physiographic features and geological settings of the region and its climate. The book deals with storage of water and impacts of water scarcity on the region’s future. There are reviews of topics coupled with case studies, data analyses, discussions and conclusions.
Author: Asit K. Biswas
Publisher: IDRC
ISBN: 088936995X
Category : Electronic books
Languages : fr
Pages : 208
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Au Moyen-Orient et en Afrique du Nord, l'eau devient l'enjeu crucial du développement. La région est caractérisée par l'un des taux moyens de croissance démographique les plus élevés du monde et par des ressources en eau peu abondantes. Dans cette région et dans d'autres, les responsables des politiques ont souvent proposé, voire tenté de mettre en œuvre, des politiques de gestion de la demande en eau, par exemple des tarifs plus élevés ou la privatisation, sans prendre en compte la culture et les valeurs locales. Pourtant, la culture, largement marquée par la religion, influence manifestement.
Author: Kamel Amer
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319484087
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 239
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This book investigates the need for a more open and interdisciplinary dialogue on the nexus of food, water and energy security in the Arab region. It argues that achieving sustainable economic development is irretrievably tied to the security of the water–energy–food nexus, which is in turn essential for bringing about sustained peace. Further, it discusses various approaches to achieving these lofty objectives, and offers the following take-away messages: The Arab region is currently under considerable water stress, and the situation will continue to get worse with a number of global changes – most notably those related to climate and regional water distribution. Viable solutions are available in the Arab region and can be implemented through innovative policies, judicious use of new technologies, and stimulating public opinion. Integration across water, energy, and food sectors is obviously needed but achieving it in practice is extremely challenging. There are some gaps in the scientific understanding but at the same time there is a wealth of data and synthesized information that can guide decision-making.
Author: Dominick de Waal
Publisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN: 1464817405
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 274
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Despite massive infrastructure investments, countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region continue to face unprecedented water scarcity due to climate change, population growth, and socioeconomic development. Current policy regimes for managing water across competing needs are primarily determined by state control of large infrastructure. Policy makers across the region understand the unsustainability of water allocations and that increasing investments in new infrastructure and technologies to increase water supply place a growing financial burden on governments. However, standard solutions for demand management—reallocating water to higher value uses, reducing waste, and increasing tariffs—pose difficult political dilemmas that, more often than not, are left unresolved. Without institutional reform, the region will likely remain in water distress even with increased financing for water sector infrastructure.The Economics of Water Scarcity in the Middle East and North Africa: Institutional Solutions confronts the persistence and severity of water scarcity in MENA. The report draws on the tools of public economics to address two crucial challenges facing states in MENA: lack of legitimacy and trust. Evidence from the World Values Survey shows that people in the region believe that a key role of government is to keep prices down and that governments are reluctant to raise tariffs because of the risk of widespread protests. Instead of avoiding the “politically sensitive†? issue of water scarcity, this report argues that reform leaders and their external partners can reform national water institutions and draw on local political contestation to establish a new social contract. The crisis and emotive power of water in the region can be used to bolster legitimacy and trust and build a sustainable, inclusive, thriving economy that is resilient to climate change.
Author: Wolfgang Wagner
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 364219351X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 467
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The book gives an outline of prevailing hydrogeologic conditions in the Arab Middle East together with the geologic background. Emphasis is given to relationships between the main features influencing the hydrogeologic conditions - regional geologic developments, paleogeographic conditions, morphology, climate and paleo-climate - and the resulting hydrogeologic features: formation of aquifers, distribution of major aquifers, main groundwater flow systems, occurrence of renewable and fossil groundwater. Reported data on hydraulic aquifer parameters, recharge rates and groundwater flow volumes are evaluated with a view to arrive at characteristic values under the specific hydrogeologic and climatic conditions. The area considered covers approximately the Arabian Plate. Information on the following countries is included: Bahrain, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, United Arab Emirates, West Bank and Gaza, Yemen.
