The Middle East Water Question

Hydropolitics and the Global Economy

Datos Bibliográficos

ID19933442
AutoresJ A Allan (0000-0001-6702-7214), Tony Allan (autor de correspondencia)
Año2001
Fecha de publicación2001-01-01
Open AccessNo
TipoBOOK
RevistaThe Middle East Water Question (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditorialI.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd. (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.5040/9780755611942
OpenAlexW4233291878
Open LibraryOL3967226M
ISBN9780755611942
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas39

Is there enough water on this planet for a global population that will shortly double its present size? The answer is of huge importance for people everywhere, but particularly to the peoples and political leaders of the Middle East and North Africa. Already, the region’s economies are as dependant on water from outside the region as they are on the renewable waters of the region. They will be much more dependant in the future. Professor Allan’s important new book aims to remove much of the confusion surrounding the issue of water in the Middle East. As well as explaining the particular issues of conflict in the region, he argues that the answer to these problems lies at the global rather than local level. The national water policies of the region (political as well as economic) can only be properly understood at an international level. And it is from this vantage

Confusion · Development economics · Economics · Economy · Geography · Middle East · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Population · Sociology · Law · Transboundary Water Resource Management · Political aspects · Political aspects of Water resources development · Political aspects of Water-supply · Water resources development · Water rights · Water-supply