Environmental Challenges in the Mediterranean 2000–2050: Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Environmental Challenges in the Mediterranean 2000–2050 Madrid, Spain 2–5 October 2002

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Antonio Marquina
Springer Science & Business Media, 2004 M02 29 - 390 pages
This book collects most of the contributions prepared for the NATO Advanced Research Workshop (ARW) on Environmental Challenges in the Mediterranean 2000-2050. The ARW took place in Madrid from 2 to 5ofOctober 2002. Scholars and researchers from North and South ofthe Mediterranean and other countries from NATO gathered in Madrid for discussing several important factors that could affect Mediterranean security in the next 50 years. In this regard the first chapter presents the different debates regarding environmental security that took place in the last decade. This chapter is an introductory chapter and takes into account the possible audience in the Southern Mediterranean and the wishes ofsome contributors. For this reason the chapter deals in extenso with the question ofhuman security and the different approaches. The ARW dealt with issues that may affect the supply of fundamental goods for human living. To this end the complex question ofclimate change, its impact in the Mediterranean, the predicted increase in temperatures and predictions about rainfall are analysed. As part of this approach a chapter about solar variability and climate change is also added.

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Contents

Environmental Security and Human Security
5
Solar Variability and Climate Change
29
Qualitativequantitative scenarios as a means to support sustainabilityoriented regional planning
47
Climate change and the occurrence of extremes some implications for the Mediterranean Basin
61
Regional IPCC Projections untill 2100 in the Mediterranean Area
75
Desertification in the Maghreb A Case Study of an Algerian HighPlain Steppe
93
Prospects for Desertification Impacts for Egypt and Libya1
109
Prospective Desertification Trends In The Negev Implications For Urban And Regional Development
123
In the long term will there be water shortage in Mediterranean Europe?
233
Implications of Population Decline for the European Union 20002050
247
Population Growth in The EuroMediterranean Region
265
Food Trade of the Mediterranean Countries in a World Context Prospects to 2030
283
Food Security Prospects in the Maghreb
301
EU Agriculture and Common Agricultural Policy Prospects for the 21st Century and Implications for Mediterranean Countries
319
Urban change in Cairo
331
Implications of Urbanisation for Turkey The Case of Istanbul
345

The Prospects of the Impact of Desertification on Turkey Lebanon Syria and Iraq
139
Prospects for desertification impacts in Southern Europe
155
From Water Scarcity to Water Security in the Maghreb Region The Moroccan Case
175
Water Scarcity Prospects in Egypt 2000 2050
187
Water worries in Jordan and Israel What may the future hold?
205
The Pollution of the Mediterranean Present State and Prospects
363
Editor
377
Index
383
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