Mark Zeitoun
Biographic Data
| ID | 983338 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mark Zeitoun |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mark |
| FAMILY NAME | Zeitoun |
| SIGNATURE | ZEITOUN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of East Anglia |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1791-0628 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 165 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Disruption to water supply and waterborne communicable diseases in northeast Syria: A spatiotemporal analysis
While no strong immediate correlation could be established between disruptions to WASH and WBDs in northeast Syria, further research is essential to explore the impact of conflict-associated damage to civil infrastructure including WASH. This is vital though challenging given confounding factors which affect both WASH and WBDs in contexts like northeast Syria. As such, research which includes exploration of mitigation after damage to WASH is esse…
The impact of attacks on urban services II: Reverberating effects of damage to water and wastewater systems on infectious disease
This article investigates the effects that attacks during armed conflict which damage water and wastewater services have on the outbreak and transmission of infectious disease. It employs a lens of uncertainty to assess the level of knowledge about the reverberations along this consequential chain and to discuss the relevance to military planning and targeting processes, and to the laws of armed conflict. It draws on data in policy reports and re…
Barriers to equity in Redd: Deficiencies in national interpretation processes constrain adaptation to context
A national interpretation process involving diverse actors and interests is required to transform global environmental initiatives into policies appropriate to the national or subnational context. These processes of localising norms are critical spaces to formulate equitable pathways to environmental conservation, yet have received limited attention from policy makers and researchers. We explored national policy processes for Reducing Emissions f…
Urban Warfare Ecology: A Study of Water Supply in Basrah
This article assesses the impact of armed conflict on the drinking water service of Basrah from 1978 to 2013 through an ‘urban warfare ecology’ lens in order to draw out the implications for relief programming and relevance to urban studies. It interprets an extensive range of unpublished literature through a frame that incorporates the accumulation of direct and indirect impacts upon the hardware, consumables and people upon which urban services…
The impact of explosive weapons on urban services: Direct and reverberating effects across space and time
This article reviews the factors that determine the impact of explosive weapons on urban services in space and time, with a focus on drinking water services. The evidence comes from published and unpublished research and records, as well as experience restoring or maintaining such services. Urban services are seen as interconnected, and each composed of interdependent components of people, consumables and hardware. Elements that make up the compo…
Transboundary water interaction III: Contest and compliance
This paper serves international water conflict resolution efforts by examining the ways that states contest hegemonic transboundary water arrangements. The conceptual framework of dynamic transboundary water interaction that it presents integrates theories about change and counter-hegemony to ascertain coercive, leverage, and liberating mechanisms through which contest and transformation of an arrangement occur. While the mechanisms can be active…
Reductionist and integrative research approaches to complex water security policy challenges
The analytical framework of water and armed conflict: A focus on the 2006 Summer War between Israel and Lebanon
This paper develops an analytical framework to investigate the relationship between water and armed conflict, and applies it to the 'Summer War' of 2006 between Israel and Lebanon (Hezbollah). The framework broadens and deepens existing classifications by assessing the impact of acts of war as indiscriminate or targeted, and evaluating them in terms of international norms and law, in particular International Humanitarian Law (IHL). In the case at…
Water Security
The purpose of this book is to present an overview of the latest research, policy, practitioner, academic and international thinking on water security—an issue that, like water governance a few years ago, has developed much policy awareness and momentum with a wide range of stakeholders. As a concept it is open to multiple interpretations, and the authors here set out the various approaches to the topic from different perspectives. Key themes add…
The Influence of Narratives on Negotiations and Resolution of the Upper Jordan River Conflict
This article tests the assertion that narratives constructed around international environmental issues serve to promote or reduce opportunities for their resolution. It does this by interpreting the influence of Lebanese and Israeli environmental narratives on resolution of and indirect negotiations over the Upper Jordan River conflict. Colonial archives, key informant interviews and academic and policy literature serve to identify and critically…
Questioning environmental security
Threats to and from 'the environment' inform geographical depictions of danger with widespread reach in political and policy circles. These fears invoke an existential anxiety about collapsing conditions of life - from 'dangerous climate change', and species extinctions to fossil fuel depletion and global water shortages. The 'securitisation' of socio-environmental processes is at once both a consequence and driver of such concerns, prescribing u…
Global environmental justice and international transboundary waters: An Initial Exploration
This paper explores the extent to which global environmental justice can serve to serve to interpret negotiations over international transboundary waters. Trade-offs are considered in terms of their spatial and temporal features, while the biophysical traits of water are found to shape the cast and behaviour of actors and institutions suffering injustices, or ignoring or opposing justice claims. Applications of the frame to recent negotiations al…
Compounding Vulnerability: Impacts of Climate Change on Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank
This paper explores the implications of climate change for Palestinians in the occupied Palestinian territory, through a focus on vulnerability pertaining to water provision and the agricultural sector. Climate vulnerability is understood as exposure to climate-related hazards in the context of social vulnerability. Climate models project, over the course of this century, increased mean temperatures and decreased rainfall for the Eastern Mediterr…
Water demand management in Yemen and Jordan: Addressing Power and Interests
This paper investigates the extent to which entrenched interests of stakeholder groups both maintain water use practice, and may be confronted. The focus is on the agricultural sectors of Yemen and Jordan, where water resource policymakers face resistance in their attempts to reduce water use to environmentally sustainable levels through implementation of water demand management (WDM) activities. Some farmers in both countries that have invested …
Transboundary water interaction II: The influence of ‘soft’ power
Virtual water ‘flows’ of the Nile Basin, 1998–2004: A first approximation and implications for water security
Power and Water In The Middle East: The Hidden Politics of the Palestinian—Israeli Water Conflict
Power and Water in the Middle East" provides a powerful new perspective on the Palestinian-Israeli water conflict. Adopting a new approach to understanding water conflict - hydro-hegemony - the author shows the conflict to be much more deeply entrenched than previously thought and reveals how existing tactics to control water are leading away from peace and towards continued domination and a squandering of this vital resource.Existing approaches …
Transboundary water interaction I: Reconsidering conflict and cooperation
International relations theory and water do mix: A response to Furlong's troubled waters, hydro-hegemony and international water relations
Power and Water in the Middle East: The Hidden Politics of the Palestinian-Israeli Water Conflict
How do we engage with the pressing challenges of xenophobia, radicalism and security in the current political climate? The widely felt sense of insecurity in the West is shared by Muslims both within and outside Western societies. Growing Islamic militancy and the subsequent increased security measures by Western powers have contributed to a pervasive sense among Muslims of being under attack both physically and culturally. "Islam and Political V…
Hydro-hegemony – a framework for analysis of trans-boundary water conflicts
The increasing structural and physical scarcity of water across the globe calls for a deeper understanding of trans-boundary water conflicts. Conventional analysis tends to downplay the role that power asymmetry plays in creating and maintaining situations of water conflict that fall short of the violent form of war and to treat as unproblematic situations of cooperation occurring in an asymmetrical context. The conceptual Framework of Hydro-Hege…
Transboundary water interaction I: Reconsidering conflict and cooperation
Transboundary water interaction II: The influence of ‘soft’ power
Reductionist and integrative research approaches to complex water security policy challenges
Transboundary water interaction III: Contest and compliance
This paper serves international water conflict resolution efforts by examining the ways that states contest hegemonic transboundary water arrangements. The conceptual framework of dynamic transboundary water interaction that it presents integrates theories about change and counter-hegemony to ascertain coercive, leverage, and liberating mechanisms through which contest and transformation of an arrangement occur. While the mechanisms can be active…
Barriers to equity in Redd: Deficiencies in national interpretation processes constrain adaptation to context
A national interpretation process involving diverse actors and interests is required to transform global environmental initiatives into policies appropriate to the national or subnational context. These processes of localising norms are critical spaces to formulate equitable pathways to environmental conservation, yet have received limited attention from policy makers and researchers. We explored national policy processes for Reducing Emissions f…
International relations theory and water do mix: A response to Furlong's troubled waters, hydro-hegemony and international water relations
Questioning environmental security
Threats to and from 'the environment' inform geographical depictions of danger with widespread reach in political and policy circles. These fears invoke an existential anxiety about collapsing conditions of life - from 'dangerous climate change', and species extinctions to fossil fuel depletion and global water shortages. The 'securitisation' of socio-environmental processes is at once both a consequence and driver of such concerns, prescribing u…
Global environmental justice and international transboundary waters: An Initial Exploration
This paper explores the extent to which global environmental justice can serve to serve to interpret negotiations over international transboundary waters. Trade-offs are considered in terms of their spatial and temporal features, while the biophysical traits of water are found to shape the cast and behaviour of actors and institutions suffering injustices, or ignoring or opposing justice claims. Applications of the frame to recent negotiations al…
The analytical framework of water and armed conflict: A focus on the 2006 Summer War between Israel and Lebanon
This paper develops an analytical framework to investigate the relationship between water and armed conflict, and applies it to the 'Summer War' of 2006 between Israel and Lebanon (Hezbollah). The framework broadens and deepens existing classifications by assessing the impact of acts of war as indiscriminate or targeted, and evaluating them in terms of international norms and law, in particular International Humanitarian Law (IHL). In the case at…
The Influence of Narratives on Negotiations and Resolution of the Upper Jordan River Conflict
This article tests the assertion that narratives constructed around international environmental issues serve to promote or reduce opportunities for their resolution. It does this by interpreting the influence of Lebanese and Israeli environmental narratives on resolution of and indirect negotiations over the Upper Jordan River conflict. Colonial archives, key informant interviews and academic and policy literature serve to identify and critically…
Compounding Vulnerability: Impacts of Climate Change on Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank
This paper explores the implications of climate change for Palestinians in the occupied Palestinian territory, through a focus on vulnerability pertaining to water provision and the agricultural sector. Climate vulnerability is understood as exposure to climate-related hazards in the context of social vulnerability. Climate models project, over the course of this century, increased mean temperatures and decreased rainfall for the Eastern Mediterr…
Water demand management in Yemen and Jordan: Addressing Power and Interests
This paper investigates the extent to which entrenched interests of stakeholder groups both maintain water use practice, and may be confronted. The focus is on the agricultural sectors of Yemen and Jordan, where water resource policymakers face resistance in their attempts to reduce water use to environmentally sustainable levels through implementation of water demand management (WDM) activities. Some farmers in both countries that have invested …
Virtual water ‘flows’ of the Nile Basin, 1998–2004: A first approximation and implications for water security
Urban Warfare Ecology: A Study of Water Supply in Basrah
This article assesses the impact of armed conflict on the drinking water service of Basrah from 1978 to 2013 through an ‘urban warfare ecology’ lens in order to draw out the implications for relief programming and relevance to urban studies. It interprets an extensive range of unpublished literature through a frame that incorporates the accumulation of direct and indirect impacts upon the hardware, consumables and people upon which urban services…
The impact of explosive weapons on urban services: Direct and reverberating effects across space and time
This article reviews the factors that determine the impact of explosive weapons on urban services in space and time, with a focus on drinking water services. The evidence comes from published and unpublished research and records, as well as experience restoring or maintaining such services. Urban services are seen as interconnected, and each composed of interdependent components of people, consumables and hardware. Elements that make up the compo…
The impact of attacks on urban services II: Reverberating effects of damage to water and wastewater systems on infectious disease
This article investigates the effects that attacks during armed conflict which damage water and wastewater services have on the outbreak and transmission of infectious disease. It employs a lens of uncertainty to assess the level of knowledge about the reverberations along this consequential chain and to discuss the relevance to military planning and targeting processes, and to the laws of armed conflict. It draws on data in policy reports and re…
Hydro-hegemony – a framework for analysis of trans-boundary water conflicts
The increasing structural and physical scarcity of water across the globe calls for a deeper understanding of trans-boundary water conflicts. Conventional analysis tends to downplay the role that power asymmetry plays in creating and maintaining situations of water conflict that fall short of the violent form of war and to treat as unproblematic situations of cooperation occurring in an asymmetrical context. The conceptual Framework of Hydro-Hege…
Power and Water In The Middle East: The Hidden Politics of the Palestinian—Israeli Water Conflict
Power and Water in the Middle East" provides a powerful new perspective on the Palestinian-Israeli water conflict. Adopting a new approach to understanding water conflict - hydro-hegemony - the author shows the conflict to be much more deeply entrenched than previously thought and reveals how existing tactics to control water are leading away from peace and towards continued domination and a squandering of this vital resource.Existing approaches …
Transboundary water interaction I: Reconsidering conflict and cooperation
International relations theory and water do mix: A response to Furlong's troubled waters, hydro-hegemony and international water relations
Power and Water in the Middle East: The Hidden Politics of the Palestinian-Israeli Water Conflict
How do we engage with the pressing challenges of xenophobia, radicalism and security in the current political climate? The widely felt sense of insecurity in the West is shared by Muslims both within and outside Western societies. Growing Islamic militancy and the subsequent increased security measures by Western powers have contributed to a pervasive sense among Muslims of being under attack both physically and culturally. "Islam and Political V…
Virtual water ‘flows’ of the Nile Basin, 1998–2004: A first approximation and implications for water security
Transboundary water interaction II: The influence of ‘soft’ power
Compounding Vulnerability: Impacts of Climate Change on Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank
This paper explores the implications of climate change for Palestinians in the occupied Palestinian territory, through a focus on vulnerability pertaining to water provision and the agricultural sector. Climate vulnerability is understood as exposure to climate-related hazards in the context of social vulnerability. Climate models project, over the course of this century, increased mean temperatures and decreased rainfall for the Eastern Mediterr…
Water demand management in Yemen and Jordan: Addressing Power and Interests
This paper investigates the extent to which entrenched interests of stakeholder groups both maintain water use practice, and may be confronted. The focus is on the agricultural sectors of Yemen and Jordan, where water resource policymakers face resistance in their attempts to reduce water use to environmentally sustainable levels through implementation of water demand management (WDM) activities. Some farmers in both countries that have invested …
Water Security
The purpose of this book is to present an overview of the latest research, policy, practitioner, academic and international thinking on water security—an issue that, like water governance a few years ago, has developed much policy awareness and momentum with a wide range of stakeholders. As a concept it is open to multiple interpretations, and the authors here set out the various approaches to the topic from different perspectives. Key themes add…
The Influence of Narratives on Negotiations and Resolution of the Upper Jordan River Conflict
This article tests the assertion that narratives constructed around international environmental issues serve to promote or reduce opportunities for their resolution. It does this by interpreting the influence of Lebanese and Israeli environmental narratives on resolution of and indirect negotiations over the Upper Jordan River conflict. Colonial archives, key informant interviews and academic and policy literature serve to identify and critically…
Questioning environmental security
Threats to and from 'the environment' inform geographical depictions of danger with widespread reach in political and policy circles. These fears invoke an existential anxiety about collapsing conditions of life - from 'dangerous climate change', and species extinctions to fossil fuel depletion and global water shortages. The 'securitisation' of socio-environmental processes is at once both a consequence and driver of such concerns, prescribing u…
Global environmental justice and international transboundary waters: An Initial Exploration
This paper explores the extent to which global environmental justice can serve to serve to interpret negotiations over international transboundary waters. Trade-offs are considered in terms of their spatial and temporal features, while the biophysical traits of water are found to shape the cast and behaviour of actors and institutions suffering injustices, or ignoring or opposing justice claims. Applications of the frame to recent negotiations al…
The analytical framework of water and armed conflict: A focus on the 2006 Summer War between Israel and Lebanon
This paper develops an analytical framework to investigate the relationship between water and armed conflict, and applies it to the 'Summer War' of 2006 between Israel and Lebanon (Hezbollah). The framework broadens and deepens existing classifications by assessing the impact of acts of war as indiscriminate or targeted, and evaluating them in terms of international norms and law, in particular International Humanitarian Law (IHL). In the case at…
The impact of explosive weapons on urban services: Direct and reverberating effects across space and time
This article reviews the factors that determine the impact of explosive weapons on urban services in space and time, with a focus on drinking water services. The evidence comes from published and unpublished research and records, as well as experience restoring or maintaining such services. Urban services are seen as interconnected, and each composed of interdependent components of people, consumables and hardware. Elements that make up the compo…
Transboundary water interaction III: Contest and compliance
This paper serves international water conflict resolution efforts by examining the ways that states contest hegemonic transboundary water arrangements. The conceptual framework of dynamic transboundary water interaction that it presents integrates theories about change and counter-hegemony to ascertain coercive, leverage, and liberating mechanisms through which contest and transformation of an arrangement occur. While the mechanisms can be active…
Reductionist and integrative research approaches to complex water security policy challenges
Urban Warfare Ecology: A Study of Water Supply in Basrah
This article assesses the impact of armed conflict on the drinking water service of Basrah from 1978 to 2013 through an ‘urban warfare ecology’ lens in order to draw out the implications for relief programming and relevance to urban studies. It interprets an extensive range of unpublished literature through a frame that incorporates the accumulation of direct and indirect impacts upon the hardware, consumables and people upon which urban services…
Barriers to equity in Redd: Deficiencies in national interpretation processes constrain adaptation to context
A national interpretation process involving diverse actors and interests is required to transform global environmental initiatives into policies appropriate to the national or subnational context. These processes of localising norms are critical spaces to formulate equitable pathways to environmental conservation, yet have received limited attention from policy makers and researchers. We explored national policy processes for Reducing Emissions f…
The impact of attacks on urban services II: Reverberating effects of damage to water and wastewater systems on infectious disease
This article investigates the effects that attacks during armed conflict which damage water and wastewater services have on the outbreak and transmission of infectious disease. It employs a lens of uncertainty to assess the level of knowledge about the reverberations along this consequential chain and to discuss the relevance to military planning and targeting processes, and to the laws of armed conflict. It draws on data in policy reports and re…
Disruption to water supply and waterborne communicable diseases in northeast Syria: A spatiotemporal analysis
While no strong immediate correlation could be established between disruptions to WASH and WBDs in northeast Syria, further research is essential to explore the impact of conflict-associated damage to civil infrastructure including WASH. This is vital though challenging given confounding factors which affect both WASH and WBDs in contexts like northeast Syria. As such, research which includes exploration of mitigation after damage to WASH is esse…
Transboundary Water Resource Management (17 works) · Political science (15 works) · Law (10 works) · Geography (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Politics (9 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Business (5 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Environmental Science (5 works)