Environmental Challenges in the MENA Region: The Long Road from Conflict to Cooperation
Hamid Pouran, "Environmental Challenges in the MENA Region: The Long Road from Conflict to Cooperation"
English | ISBN: 1909942219 | 2019 | 320 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
English | ISBN: 1909942219 | 2019 | 320 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
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.
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