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The Water Conflict in the Middle East: A Test Case for International Intervention

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Implementing Ecological Integrity

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The connection between water resources, the environment, and the danger of ecological collapse due to lack of water is well known in the Middle East (Allan and Mallat, 1995, 4-5). Such a danger also exists in other dry areas of the world. However, I shall argue in this paper that the current water shortage in the Middle East is distinctive since the traditional means for coping with such a situation—preserving the integrity of water resources and life systems—are no longer adequate. In order to maintain the integrity of natural resources, minimal conditions must exist that make such preservation possible; such conditions no longer exist in the Middle East.

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    Shyli Karin-Frank

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  1. Centre for Research on the Integration of Environment and Economy, Institute of the Environment, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada

    P. Crabbé

  2. Philosophy Department, Furness College, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK

    A. Holland

  3. Research Centre for Agricultural and Forest Environment, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poznan, Poland

    L. Ryszkowski

  4. Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY, USA

    L. Westra (Barbara B. and Bertram J. Cohn Professor of Environmental Studies) (Barbara B. and Bertram J. Cohn Professor of Environmental Studies)

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Karin-Frank, S. (2000). The Water Conflict in the Middle East: A Test Case for International Intervention. In: Crabbé, P., Holland, A., Ryszkowski, L., Westra, L. (eds) Implementing Ecological Integrity. Nato Science Series, vol 1. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5876-3_21

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