1st Edition
The North African Environment At Risk
304 Pages
by
Routledge
304 Pages
by
Routledge
304 Pages
by
Routledge
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Deforestation, soil erosion, desertification, air and water pollution, loss of wildlife habitat, and declining biodiversity are interrelated manifestations of a growing environmental crisis in North Africa that has received relatively little attention from government policymakers and is poorly understood by North African peoples, the international development community, and scholars. In this book... Read more
Introduction: North Africa’s Environment at Risk -- Historical Perspectives on Environmental Deterioration -- Is Drought Increasing in Northwest Africa? A Historical Analysis -- Development Trends and Environmental Deterioration in the Agropastoral Systems of the Central Middle Atlas, Morocco -- Sustained Past and Risky Present: The Tafilalt Oasis of Southeastern Morocco -- Desertification and Land Degradation -- Desertification and Degradation of Algeria’s Environmental Resources -- Land Degradation in Tunisia: Causes and Sustainable Solutions -- Pastoralism and Desertification in Mauritania -- Is Sedentarization of Pastoral Nomads Causing Desertification? The Case of the Beni Guil of Eastern Morocco -- Environmental Degradation in Northern Africa: An Ecological Modeling Approach with Implications for Sustainable Development and Global Change -- Threatened Ecosystems and Economic Development -- Endangered Wetlands and Environmental Management in North Africa -- Forest Degradation in Morocco -- Disappearing Species: The Case of the Monk Seal in Algeria -- Quality of Life and Environmental Protection Issues -- Pollution and the Deteriorating Quality of Life in Tunisia -- Desert Locust Control, Public Health, and Environmental Sustainability in North Africa -- Environmental Impacts of Tourism along the Moroccan Coast -- The Internationalization of North African Environmental Concerns -- Appendix
Biography
"Will D. Swearingen is research associate professor in the Earth Science Department at Montana State University, Bozeman. He is author of Moroccan Mirages and numerous articles on agriculture, food security, and drought in North Africa. Abdellatif Bencherifa is professor of geography and vice dean of the Faculté des Lettres et des Sciences Humaines at the Université Mohammed V, Rabat, Morocco. He specializes in the study of land-use practices in mountain and oasis environments in Morocco and has published widely on these topics."
