1st Edition

Change and Development in the Middle East (Routledge Revivals) Essays in honour of W.B. Fisher

Edited By Clarke John, Bowen-Jones Howard Copyright 1981
335 Pages
by Routledge

340 Pages
by Routledge

335 Pages
by Routledge

The Middle East is a region of great traditional diversity, which has been characterized by immense political, social and economic changes, still developing over thirty years after the title’s original publication. A group of oil-rich countries have achieved great political significance and some of the highest per capita incomes in the world. Much modern development has been spatially... Read more

List of Figures; Notes on Contributors; Preface; Part I: Overviews 1. Development in the Middle East Howard Bowen-Jones 2. Renewable natural resources in the Middle East J. A. Allan 3. Water resources and their management in the Middle East Peter Beaumont 4. Irrigation in the Arab countries of the Middle East John H. Stevens 5. The Impact of Economic Development on Pastoral Nomadism in the Middle East: an Inevitable Eclipse? J. Stace Birks 6. The Oil Industry in the Middle East Keith McLachlan 7. Offshore Politics and Resources in the Middle East Gerald H. Blake 8. Population Growth in the Middle East since 1945 with Special Reference to the Arab Countries of West Asia Allan G. Hill 9. Contemporary Urban Growth in the Middle East John I. Clarke Part II: Case Studies 10. The Study of and a Contribution to the Geomorphology of the Arabian Gulf Taiba A. al-Asfour 11. Fisheries of the Arabian Peninsula William J. Donaldson 12. A Rural Community Development Project in Oman Roderic W. Dutton 13. Agricultural Development in Turkey John C. Dutton 14. A Fieldscape in Transition: The Case of a Turkish Orchard Brian W. Beeley 15. The Settlement of Armenian Refugees in Syria and Lebanon, 1915-39 Thomas H. Greenshields 16. Labour Mobility and Manpower Planning in Tunisia Allan M. Findlay 17. The Industrialization of Libya Mohammed el Mehdawi 18. Social and Economic Change in North African Medinas: The Case of Tunis Richard I. Lawless 19. Urban Planning in Iran Brian D. Clark 20. The Political Geography of Cyprus Michael P. Drury 21. Provincial and District Delimination in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Nassir A. Saleh; index

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Bowen-Jones Howard, Clarke John