Challenging Environmental Issues
Middle Eastern Perspective
Edited by Joseph G. Jabbra, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, and Nancy W. Jabbra, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles
Biographical note
Joseph G. Jabbra and Nancy W. Jabbra are specialists on the Middle East. They both received their Ph.D. degrees from the Catholic University of America and have scores of publication to their credit. They are both established at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles where Dr. Joseph G. Jabbra is the Academic Vice President and Professor of Political Science and International Law, and Dr. Nancy Jabbra is Director and Professor of Women's Studies.
Readership
All scholars, experts and students who specialize in the Middle East. All green parties and environmentalists who are interested in knowing about the status of the environment in the Middle East. All those international lawyers who specialize in the international law of the environment.
Table of contents
Challenging Environmental Issues: Middle Eastern Perspectives, Joseph G. Jabra and Nancy W. Jabra
Environmental Management: The Will and the Way in Jordan, Jamil E. Jreisat
Emerging Environmental Concerns: A Perspective from the Sultanate of Oman, Joseph A. Keckichian
The State of the Environment in Iran, Seid M. Zekavat
Environmental Challenges in Lebanon, Rania Masri
An Imperiled Promised Land: The Antecedents of Israel’s Environmental Crises and Prospects for Progress, Alon Tal
Rape of Nature: The Environmental Destruction and Ethnic Cleansing of the Sudan, Damazo Dut Majak
Regional Instruments for the Protection of the Marine Environment in the Arabian Gulf, Badria A. Al-Awadhi
Managing Resources, Its Socioeconomic and Environmental Co9nsequences: The Case of Syria, Gloria Ibrahim Saliba
Contributors
Environmental Management: The Will and the Way in Jordan, Jamil E. Jreisat
Emerging Environmental Concerns: A Perspective from the Sultanate of Oman, Joseph A. Keckichian
The State of the Environment in Iran, Seid M. Zekavat
Environmental Challenges in Lebanon, Rania Masri
An Imperiled Promised Land: The Antecedents of Israel’s Environmental Crises and Prospects for Progress, Alon Tal
Rape of Nature: The Environmental Destruction and Ethnic Cleansing of the Sudan, Damazo Dut Majak
Regional Instruments for the Protection of the Marine Environment in the Arabian Gulf, Badria A. Al-Awadhi
Managing Resources, Its Socioeconomic and Environmental Co9nsequences: The Case of Syria, Gloria Ibrahim Saliba
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