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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: North African environment at risk. Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 1996 (OCoLC)604995979 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Will D Swearingen; Abdellatif Bencherifa |
| ISBN: | 0813321271 9780813321271 |
| OCLC Number: | 33160940 |
| Description: | xiv, 286 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | North Africa's environment at risk / Will D. Swearingen and Abdellatif Bencherifa -- Is drought increasing in Northwest Africa? : a historical analysis / Will D. Swearingen -- Development trends and environmental deterioration in the agropastoral systems of the central Middle Atlas, Morocco / Douglas L. Johnson -- Sustained past and risky present : the Tafilalt oasis of Southeastern Morocco / James A. Miller -- Desertification and degradation of Algeria's environmental resources / Keith Sutton and Salah Zaimeche -- Land degradation in Tunisia : causes and sustainable solutions / Sadok Bouzid -- Pastoralism and desertification in Mauritania / Dah Salihi -- Is sedentarization of pastoral nomads causing desertification? : the case of the Beni Guil of Eastern Morocco / Abdellatif Bencherifa -- Environmental degradation in Northern Africa : an ecological modeling approach with implications for sustainable development and global change / Christopher S. Potter -- Endangered wetlands and environmental management in North Africa / Barbara Parmenter -- Forest degradation in Morocco / Abdelmalek Benabid -- Disappearing species : the case of the monk seal in Algeria / Zitouni Boutiba -- Pollution and the deteriorating quality of life in Tunisia / Belgacem Henchi -- Desert locust control, public health, and environmental sustainability in North Africa / Allan T. Showler -- Environmental impacts of tourism along the Moroccan coast / Mohamed Berriane -- The internationalization of North African environmental concerns / Pamela Chasek, Lynn Wagner, and I. William Zartman. |
| Series Title: | State, culture, and society in Arab North Africa. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Will D. Swearingen and Abdellatif Bencherifa. |
Abstract:
Deforestation, soil erosion, desertification, air and water pollution, loss of wildlife habitat, and declining biodiversity are interrelated manifestations of a growing environmental crisis in North Africa that has received relatively little attention from government policymakers and is poorly understood by North African peoples, the international development community, and scholars. In this book a multidisciplinary group of scholars explores the broad range of human activities causing the deterioration of North Africa's fragile environment, including population pressure and poverty, rapid urbanization, intense competition for land and water, and mismanagement of natural resources. The contributors examine in particular the conflict between economic development and environmental sustainability. They analyze the historical roots of current environmental problems, the underlying socio-economic causes, potential solutions, and differences in environmental policies among various countries. This is an insightful portrait of a developing region attempting to reconcile traditional methods of land use with growing demands for resources, the exigencies of economic development, and the limitations of its natural resource base.
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Related Subjects:(18)
- Environmental degradation -- Africa, North.
- Environmental risk assessment -- Africa, North.
- Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- Africa, North.
- Environment -- Effects of -- Humans
- North Africa
- Milieuaantasting.
- Environnement -- Dégradation -- Afrique du Nord.
- Environnement -- Évaluation du risque -- Afrique du Nord.
- Homme -- Influence sur la nature -- Afrique du Nord.
- Désertification -- Afrique du Nord.
- Pastoralisme -- Afrique du Nord.
- Politique de l'environnement -- Afrique du Nord.
- Environnement -- Afrique du Nord.
- Pollution -- Afrique du Nord.
- Umweltschaden
- Aufsatzsammlung
- Desertifikation
- Nordafrika
