Transformations of Middle Eastern Natural Environments

Publication Series / Transformations of Middle Eastern Natural Environments

Transformations of Middle Eastern Natural Environments

Legacies and Lessons

Bulletin 103
498 pages, 1998

Jeff Albert, Magnus Bernhardsson, and Roger Kenna, Editors

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Preface and Acknowledgements
103frontmatter.pdf

Abbas Amanat

Introduction
103introduction.pdf

Jeff Albert, Magnus Bernhardsson, and Roger Kenna

Section I: Agriculture and Pastoralism

Middle Eastern Irrigation: Legacies and Lessons
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Peter Christensen

Biodiversity and Sustainable Agriculture in the Fertile Crescent
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A.A. Jaradat

Use of Land by Nomadic Pastoralists in Iran: 1970–1998
103beck.pdf

Lois Beck

Gender, Pastoralism, and Intensification: Changing Environmental Resource Use in Morocco
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Susanne H. Steinmann

Environmental Degradation in Eastern Turkey: The Case of Contract Farming
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Behrooz Morvaridi

Monitoring Desert Locusts in the Middle East: An Overview
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Keith Cressman

Section II: Water

“Virtual Water:” An Essential Element in Stabilizing the Political Economies of the Middle East
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J.A. Allan

Playing Chicken on the Nile? The Implications of Microdam Development in the Ethiopian Highlands and Egypt’s New Valley Project
103waterbury.pdf

John Waterbury and Dale Whittington

Restructuring of Water Usage in the Tigris-Euphrates Basin: The Impact of Modern Water Management Policies
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Peter Beaumont

Qanats and Lifeworlds in Iranian Plateau Villages
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Paul Ward English

Disease and Water Supply: The Case of Cholera in 19th Century Iran
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Amir A. Afkhami

Hydrostrategic Decisionmaking and the Arab–Israeli Conflict
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Aaron T. Wolf

Water Agreements Between Israel and Its Neighbors
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Uri Shamir

Toward a Unified Management Regime in the Jordan Basin: The Johnston Plan Revisited
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Sharif S. Elmusa

Section III: Nature and Culture

Cultural Ecology, Perceptions of Nature, and the Advent of Monotheism in the Ancient Middle East: An Hypothesis
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Daniel Hillel

Gardens of Eden: Exotic Flora and Fauna in the Ancient Near East
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Karen Polinger Foster

Between Paradise and Political Capital: The Semiotics of Safavid Isfahan
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Heidi A.Walcher

Rethinking the Islamic Garden
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Attilio Petruccioli

Section IV: Marine Environments

Middle Eastern Marine Environments: An Overview of Anthropogenic Impacts
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Menakhem Ben-Yami

Impact of Red Sea Fish Migrants through the Suez Canal on the Aquatic Environment of the Eastern Mediterranean
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Daniel Golani

Fisheries Development in the Arab World
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Izzat H. Feidi

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
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Walter H. Pearson, Saif M. Al-Ghais, Jerry M. Neff, C. Jeffrey Brandt, Katherine Wellman and Thomas Green

Section V: Monitoring

Global Climate Variations Over the Past 250 Years: Relationships with the Middle East
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Michael E. Mann and Raymond S. Bradley

Rapid Population Growth and the Fertility Policies of the Arab Countries of the Middle East
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Onn Winckler

Monitoring the Distribution, Use, and Regeneration of Natural Resources in Semi-arid Southwest Asia
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Nicholas Kouchoukos, Ronald Smith, Art Gleason, Prasad Thenkabail, Frank Hole, Youssef Barkoudah, Jeff Albert, Paul Gluhosky, and Jane Foster

Conference Panels, Poster Sessions, and Participants
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