Drivers of urbanization effects in five countries of the MENA region–a review

AAK Yehya, TT Nguyen, M Wiehle… - Journal of Land Use …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Urbanization, a global process entailing profound socio-economic changes, transforms land
cover. This review analyzes the social-ecological drivers and outcomes of land cover …

A rentier state under blockade: Qatar's water-energy-food predicament from energy abundance and food insecurity to a silent water crisis

H Hussein, LA Lambert - Water, 2020 - mdpi.com
This article investigates Qatar's sustainability crisis of the high levels of water, electricity and
food use. The high levels of consumption have been enabled by Qatar's significant …

Tomatoes, tribes, bananas, and businessmen: An analysis of the shadow state and of the politics of water in Jordan

H Hussein - Environmental Science & Policy, 2018 - Elsevier
This article shed light on the shadow state, investigating who belongs to it, their interests,
and their relation to the water sector. This is important because Jordan is known to be …

An analysis of the discourse of water scarcity and hydropolitical dynamics in the case of Jordan

H Hussein - 2016 - ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk
This thesis investigates the construction of the discourse of water scarcity in Jordan. First, it
identifies the actors constructing the discourse, their interests, and the elements comprising …

The long shadow of the 1959 Nile Waters Agreement

D Whittington - Water Policy, 2024 - iwaponline.com
ABSTRACT Since 2011 Ethiopia, Egypt, and Sudan have been in continual negotiations
over the filling and operation of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam and more …

The water-energy-food nexus in arid regions

M Keulertz, J Sowers, E Woertz… - The Oxford handbook of …, 2016 - books.google.com
The water-energy-food nexus has emerged as a widely discussed concept in development
policy circles in recent years. The core of the nexus concept is that the production …

[HTML][HTML] Water pricing policy as tool to induce efficiency in water resources management

M García-López, B Montano, J Melgarejo - International Journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
This research seeks to determine and analyze the reaction to an increase in the water
invoice with the aim of introducing improvements in wastewater treatments. To this end, the …

Food trade relations of the Middle East and North Africa with tropical countries

E Woertz, M Keulertz - Food Security, 2015 - Springer
Abstract The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region is the world's largest importer of
food, especially of cereals, sugar and poultry. Tropical regions have gained growing …

The topologies and topographies of hydro-social territorialisation in Jordan

D Mustafa, M Tillotson - Political Geography, 2019 - Elsevier
Most major stakeholders in Jordan are of the view that irrigated agriculture in the highlands
in not sustainable. What is less well known is how the highland agriculture is intertwined …

[PDF][PDF] Cultivating the desert: Irrigation expansion and groundwater abstraction in Northern State, Sudan.

S Fragaszy, A Closas - Water Alternatives, 2016 - water-alternatives.org
This study examines the socioeconomic features that underpin the expansion of
groundwaterdependent irrigation in Northern State, Sudan. Groundwater development in the …