Environmental Challenges in the MENA Region (Hardcover)

Hamid Pouran

ISBN 10: 1909942219 / ISBN 13: 9781909942219

Published by GINGKO, London, 2019

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Hardcover. The Middle East and North Africa region is well-known for its abundant natural resources and important geostrategic position. This position is often overshadowed by continued sectarian violence and trans-boundary conflicts that threaten the stability of the entire region with serious global implications. This preoccupation with conflict has come at the expense of addressing the regions other challenges. Although the regions fragile environmental state has increasingly preoccupied policymakers in individual countries, there is currently insufficient attention paid to coordinating collaborative action to recognise and address problems relating to its environmental sustainability and climatic change. In the absence of a positive agenda for tackling these issues, recurrent environmental setbacks and rapid depletion of the regions natural resources continue to pose a major threat to the long-term economic, political, and social stability of the region. Despite the urgency of these challenges, there is little research dedicated to studying MENAs environmental sustainability. Environmental Challenges in the MENA Region: The Long Road from Conflict to Cooperation draws from the proceedings of a seminal international conference on the subject at SOAS in October 2016, which was held as a celebration of the SOAS Centenary. This led to a collective contribution by experts and policy-makers concerned with the state of the MENA regions environmental predicament with the aim of addressing these problems in a constructive and forward-looking approach. The chapters in this book are predicated upon two critical premises. First, expertise and awareness from a wide range of disciplines is required to understand and address environmental challenges. And, second, to have a real chance of success, MENA countries need to confront these problems as their common threats and to see them as an opportunity for regional cooperation and policy coordination. This book provides the results of an interdisciplinary effort to address the various dimensions of the regions environmental challenges from across the region and disciplines. Environmental Challenges in the MENA Region draws from the proceedings of a seminal international conference on the subject at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Environmental Challenges in the MENA Region (Hardcover)
• Publisher: GINGKO, London
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1909942219
• ISBN 13: 9781909942219
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

The Middle East and North Africa region is well-known for its abundant natural resources and important geostrategic position. This position is often overshadowed by continued sectarian violence and trans-boundary conflicts that threaten the stability of the entire region with serious global implications. This preoccupation with conflict has come at the expense of addressing the region's other challenges.

Although the region's fragile environmental state has increasingly preoccupied policymakers in individual countries, there is currently insufficient attention paid to coordinating collaborative action to recognise and address problems relating to its environmental sustainability and climatic change. In the absence of a positive agenda for tackling these issues, recurrent environmental setbacks and rapid depletion of the region's natural resources continue to pose a major threat to the long-term economic, political, and social stability of the region.

Despite the urgency of these challenges, there is little research dedicated to studying MENA's environmental sustainability. Environmental Challenges in the MENA Region: The Long Road from Conflict to Cooperation draws from the proceedings of a seminal international conference on the subject at SOAS in October 2016, which was held as a celebration of the SOAS Centenary. This led to a collective contribution by experts and policy-makers concerned with the state of the MENA region's environmental predicament with the aim of addressing these problems in a constructive and forward-looking approach.

The chapters in this book are predicated upon two critical premises. First, expertise and awareness from a wide range of disciplines is required to understand and address environmental challenges. And, second, to have a real chance of success, MENA countries need to confront these problems as their common threats and to see them as an opportunity for regional cooperation and policy coordination. This book provides the results of an interdisciplinary effort to address the various dimensions of the region's environmental challenges from across the region and disciplines.

About the Author

Hassan Hakimian is Director of the London Middle East Institute and a reader in the Economics Department at SOAS University of London, and his research focuses on MENA economies. He is a founding member and currently the president of the International Iranian Economic Association (IEA) and a Research Fellow and member of the Advisory Committee of the Economic Research Forum (ERF) in Cairo. He is the founder and series editor for the Routledge Political Economy of the Middle East and North Africa, which he launched in 2003.
Before joining the LMEI as a research associate, Hamid Pouran was Iran Heritage Foundation (IHF) Visiting Fellow in Iran’s Environmental Sustainability at the LMEI’s Centre for Iranian Studies and senior research associate at Lancaster University. He was part of Transatlantic Initiative for Nanotechnology and the Environment (TINE). His research was focused on developing new techniques to measure available concentrations of nanomaterials in the environment. He is currently a member, co-founder and innovation director of a spin out company from Lancaster University, Novabiomatrix Ltd, that is an R&D company in nanobiotech research.