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Transformations of Middle Eastern natural environments : legacies and lessons
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- Transformations of Middle Eastern Natural Environments : Legacies and Lessons (1997 : New Haven, Conn.)
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- Creator
- Jane Coppock and Joseph A. Miller, bulletin series editors; Jeff Albert, Magnus Bernhardsson, and Roger Kenna, volume editors
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- English
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- Publication
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- New Haven, Conn. : Yale University, 1998
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- 498 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 26 cm
- OCLC
- ocm41281991
- Introduction / Jeff Albert, Magnus Bernhardsson, and Roger Kenna -- Middle Eastern irrigation : legacies and lessons / Peter Christensen -- Biodiversity and sustainable agriculture in the Fertile Crescent / A. A. Jaradat -- Use of land by Nomadic pastoralists in Iran : 1970-1998 / Lois Beck -- Gender, pastoralism, and intensification : changing environmental resource use in Morocco / Susanne H. Steinmann -- Environmental degradation in eastern Turkey : the case of contract farming / Behrooz Morvaridi -- Monitoring desert locusts in the Middle East : an overview / Keith Cressman -- "Virtual water" : an essential element in stabilizing the political economies of the Middle East / J. A. Allan -- 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 -- Restructuring of water usage in the Tigris-Euphrates basin : the impact of modern water management policies / Peter Beaumont -- Qanats and lifeworlds in Iranian plateau villages / Paul Ward English -- Disease and water supply : the case of cholera in 19th century Iran / Amir A. Afkhami -- Hydrostrategic decisionmaking and the Arab-Israeli conflict / Aaron T. Wolf -- Water agreements between Israel and its neighbors / Uri Shamir -- Toward a unified management regime in the Jordan basin : the Johnston Plan revisited / Sharif S. Elmusa -- Cultural ecology, perceptions of nature and the advent of monotheism in the ancient Middle East : an hypothesis / Daniel Hillel -- Gardens of Eden : exotic flora and fauna in the ancient Near East / Karen Polinger Foster -- Between paradise and political capital : the semiotics of Safavid Isfahan / Heidi A. Walcher -- Rethinking the Islamic garden / Attilio Petruccioli -- Middle Eastern marine environments : an overview of anthropogenic impacts / Menakhem Ben-Yami -- Impact of Red Sea fish migrants through the Suez Canal on the aquatic environment of the eastern Mediterranean / Daniel Golani -- Fisheries development in the Arab world / 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 / Walter H. Pearson, Saif M. Al-Ghais, Jerry M. Neff ... (et al.) -- Global climate variations over the past 250 years : relationships with the Middle East / Michael E. Mann and Raymond S. Bradley -- Rapid population growth and the fertility policies of the Arab countries / Onn Winckler -- Monitoring the distribution, use, and regeneration of natural resources in semi-arid southwest Asia / Nicholas Kouchoukos, Ronald Smith, Art Gleason ...(et al.)