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The Middle East and North Africa: A Contemporary Geography

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Availability:In StockContributor:Alasdair DrysdaleSeries:Changing Regions in a Global Context: New Perspectives in RePublish date:2024-10-23Pages:410
Language:EnglishPublisher:Rowman & Littlefield PublishersISBN-13:9781538182536ISBN-10:153818253XUPC:9781538182536Book Category:Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Human Geography, Regional Studies, Cultural & Ethnic StudiesBook Topic:Middle Eastern StudiesProduct ID:SCWHJY641Y

This contemporary text--the first in over a decade on the region--presents the geography of the Middle East and North Africa, defined as the Arab World, Israel, Turkey, Iran, and Afghanistan. Thematically organized, the book's eleven chapters focus on the region's physical and climatic setting, demographic characteristics, migration patterns, religious and linguistic diversity, political map, offshore claims, oil and gas resources, and subregions and states.

Within this framework, Drysdale emphasizes pressing current problems: the impact of climate change in a region where some areas already suffer from extreme summer heat and aridity, the challenge of providing additional water in a region where per capita availability of freshwater is already the lowest in the world, the impact of high fertility and rapid population growth in a fragile environment where economies are often unable to absorb young workers entering the labor force, the looming prospect of an aging population, the effects of out- and in-migration, the diverse impact and role of Islam in daily and public life, the integrative consequences of linguistic and ethnic diversity, the evolution and imperfections of the political map, ongoing territorial and boundary disputes that often have global repercussions, external dependence on the region's prolific oil and gas resources, and the extreme regional inequalities associated with their presence or absence. This timely and insightful analysis is essential reading for students of the region who need a better understanding of key regional characteristics, challenges, and issues.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Rowman & Littlefield PublishersISBN-13:9781538182536ISBN-10:153818253XUPC:9781538182536Book Category:Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Human Geography, Regional Studies, Cultural & Ethnic StudiesBook Topic:Middle Eastern StudiesProduct ID:SCWHJY641Y

Alasdair Drysdale is the co-author of The Middle East and North Africa: A Political Geography and Syria and the Middle East Peace Process and the author of numerous book chapters, journal articles, and encyclopedia entries on the region. The winner of the Lindberg Prize for Outstanding Teaching at the University of New Hampshire, he has taught a course on the Middle East and North Africa for over forty years. He has been invited to offer testimony at hearings on the Middle East before a US Congressional subcommittee on Foreign Affairs and served on the editorial board of Arab World Geographer.


Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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