The North African Environment at Risk

ISBN-13: 9780367309923 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 304 str.

Will D. Swearingen; Abdellatif Bencherifa

Opis

This book explores the broad range of human activities causing the deterioration of North Africa's fragile environment, including population pressure and poverty, rapid urbanization, intense competition for land and water, and mismanagement of natural resources.

Spis treści

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