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Renewable Energy in the Middle East
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ISBN: 1402098901 140209891X 9786613561565 128038364X 1402098928 Year: 2009 Publisher: Springer Netherlands

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Energy insecurity is not normally associated with the Middle East. However, away from the oil-rich Persian Gulf, the countries of the eastern Mediterranean are particularly vulnerable. Their fossil fuel endowments are low, while their fractious relationships with each other have long fostered wider political insecurities. Focusing on the Jordan Basin (Israel, the Palestinian Territories, Lebanon and Jordan), this timely volume addresses the prospects for the adoption of renewable energy in the oil-poor Middle East. Featuring regional energy experts, it offers an invaluable survey. After outlining the regional security context, this book first reviews renewable energy policy and practices in the Jordan Basin. It then considers options for greening energy use, including promising pilot projects in North Africa. The initiatives discussed encompass renewable energy finance, energy-efficient rural communities, and solar and wind energy. There is significant potential for an increase in the uptake of renewable energy technologies in the eastern Mediterranean. This window of opportunity has been created by high oil prices, energy infrastructure investment opportunities, and the UN climate change regime. In conclusion, the book considers the institutional conditions for collaborative decision-making on renewable energy. Such cooperation would deliver substantial security and human development benefits to the region, and indeed the world.

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Energy development -- Middle East. --- Renewable energy sources -- Middle East. --- Rural development -- Middle East. --- Renewable energy sources --- Energy policy --- Energy industries --- Mechanical Engineering - General --- Mechanical Engineering --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Middle East. --- Alternate energy sources --- Alternative energy sources --- Energy sources, Renewable --- Sustainable energy sources --- Asia, South West --- Asia, Southwest --- Asia, Western --- East (Middle East) --- Eastern Mediterranean --- Fertile Crescent --- Levant --- Mediterranean Region, Eastern --- Mideast --- Near East --- Northern Tier (Middle East) --- South West Asia --- Southwest Asia --- Engineering. --- Renewable energy resources. --- Renewable energy sources. --- Alternate energy sources. --- Green energy industries. --- Energy industries. --- Climate change. --- Environmental management. --- Human geography. --- Renewable and Green Energy. --- Energy Economics. --- Climate Change. --- Environmental Management. --- Human Geography. --- Anthropo-geography --- Anthropogeography --- Geographical distribution of humans --- Social geography --- Anthropology --- Geography --- Human ecology --- Environmental stewardship --- Stewardship, Environmental --- Environmental sciences --- Management --- Changes, Climatic --- Climate change --- Climate changes --- Climate variations --- Climatic change --- Climatic changes --- Climatic fluctuations --- Climatic variations --- Global climate changes --- Global climatic changes --- Climatology --- Climate change mitigation --- Teleconnections (Climatology) --- Industries --- Power resources --- Green energy industries --- Renewable natural resources --- Agriculture and energy --- Construction --- Industrial arts --- Technology --- Environmental aspects --- Asia, West --- West Asia --- Western Asia --- Orient --- Climatic changes. --- Energy Policy, Economics and Management. --- Changes in climate --- Climate change science --- Energy policy. --- Energy and state. --- Energy and state --- State and energy --- Industrial policy --- Energy conservation --- Government policy --- Eastern Mediterranean Region --- Middle East --- South West --- Asia


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Steppes d'Arabies : états, pasteurs, agriculteurs et commerçants : le devenir des zones sèches
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ISBN: 2130460828 2940549788 9782130460824 Year: 1993 Volume: 23 Publisher: Paris: PUF,

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Un quart environ des populations rurales des pays du Sud sont confrontées aux problèmes de l’aridité. Au Moyen-Orient arabe, le contrôle de la dégradation des ressources dans les zones sèches constitue aujourd’hui un des enjeux majeurs pour l’avenir de ces régions. Au cours des quatre dernières décennies, les politiques agricoles ont été concentrées sur le développement de périmètres irrigués au détriment des steppes, régions traditionnellement dévolues à l’élevage et à la production fourragère. Le processus de marginalisation économique de ces régions s’est accompagné d’une marginalisation socio-politique des éleveurs et des agro-pasteurs. Agronomes, archéologues, économistes, ethnologues, géographes, historiens et politologues s’interrogent dans cet ouvrage sur les transformations écologiques des steppes, les stratégies d’adaptation de leurs habitants, les politiques de développement et les relations de pouvoir entre populations locales et décideurs. Quelle est la réalité des phénomènes de dégradation de la végétation et des sols ? Quelles en sont les conséquences à terme ? Qu’est-ce qu’une tribu aujourd’hui et quel est son rôle dans l’organisation de la production ? Qui sont les nouveaux acteurs sociaux qui, outre les groupes bédouins, interviennent dans la transformation des zones sèches ? Dans quelle mesure les États du Moyen-Orient arabe sont-ils maîtres des politiques de développement mises en œuvre ? Autant de questions auxquelles il serait prudent de répondre avant d’entreprendre de nouvelles politiques de développement...

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Arabian Peninsula --- Arabie (Péninsule) --- Politics and government --- Social conditions --- Economic conditions --- Politique et gouvernement --- Conditions sociales --- Conditions économiques --- Bedouins --- -Rural development --- -Arid regions agriculture --- -Congresses --- Congresses --- Economic aspects --- -Middle East --- Commerce --- Arid regions agriculture --- Rural development --- Bédouins --- Développement rural --- Plant and Crop Sciences. Crop Sciences --- Grasslands --- Grasslands. --- Arabie (Péninsule) --- Conditions économiques --- Middle East --- Déserts --- Bédouins. --- Steppes --- Développement rural --- Conditions rurales --- Congresses. --- Régions arides --- Conditions économiques. --- Bédouins. --- Bédouins --- Moyen-Orient --- Politique et gouvernement. --- Commerce. --- Community development, Rural --- Development, Rural --- Integrated rural development --- Regional development --- Rehabilitation, Rural --- Rural community development --- Rural economic development --- Agriculture and state --- Community development --- Economic development --- Regional planning --- Beduins --- Arabs --- Ethnology --- Nomads --- North Africans --- Dryland agriculture --- Dryland farming --- Agriculture --- Crop zones --- Desert reclamation --- Aménagement rural --- Développement agricole --- Développement communautaire rural --- Développement économique rural --- Projets de développement rural --- Parcs naturels régionaux --- Politique agricole --- Et le développement rural --- Réforme agraire --- Communication dans le développement rural --- Villages --- Chambres d'agriculture --- Emploi en milieu rural --- Femmes dans le développement rural --- Sociétés d'aménagement foncier et d'établissement rural --- Panchayat --- Économie rurale --- Aménagement du territoire --- Développement communautaire --- Développement économique --- Arabes bédouins --- Arabes nomades --- Badawîn --- Badw --- Bijoux bédouins --- Cheikhs --- Droit bédouin --- Musique bédouine --- Rabāba al-shā‘ir --- Bédouines --- Arabes --- Citizen participation --- Social aspects --- Vulgarisation --- Rénovation --- Planification --- Asia, South West --- Asia, Southwest --- Asia, West --- Asia, Western --- East (Middle East) --- Eastern Mediterranean --- Fertile Crescent --- Levant --- Mediterranean Region, Eastern --- Mideast --- Near East --- Northern Tier (Middle East) --- South West Asia --- Southwest Asia --- West Asia --- Western Asia --- Orient --- Asie (ouest) --- Asie (sud-ouest) --- Asie antérieure --- Asie du Sud-Ouest --- Asie occidentale --- Asie sud-occidentale --- Basse Asie --- Croissant fertile --- Machrek --- Machreq --- Mashrek --- Mashreq --- Mashriq --- Orient, Moyen --- -Moyen-Orient --- Pays arabes --- Asie Mineure --- Arabie --- Irak --- Iran --- Persique --- Proche-Orient --- Soudan --- Turquie --- Kurdistan --- Asie --- Kurdes --- Antiquités --- Civilisation --- Étude et enseignement --- Histoire --- Relations extérieures --- Golfe (région) --- Rural development - Middle East --- Bedouins - Middle East --- Middle East - Politics and government --- Middle East - Commerce --- agriculture --- développement rural --- régions arides --- nomades --- commerce --- ʿArab al-Ǧahālīn (peuple arabe) --- Déserts --- Régions arides

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