Global Arab Network | Environmental challenges for the Arab world | Economics: "Environmental challenges for the Arab world PDF Print E-mail
David Morgan
Saturday, 29 August 2009 01:24
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The latest Arab Human Development Report published by the UN gives a detailed assessment of the most significant environmental hazards facing the Arab countries. The report, based on research conducted over two years, considers population and demographic pressures in the context of water shortages, desertification, pollution, and climate change.
A key aspect to these environmental threats is the dynamic, interactive relationship among them. Water shortages, for example, contribute to desertification, while climate change may lead to floods in some areas and to worsened water shortages, drought and desertification in others. Similarly, air pollution is an underlying cause of climate change. All pose Challenges to Human Security in the Arab Countries, which is the subtitle of the report.
“The environmental issues can only be confronted through scientific research and serious technological development,” says Mostafa Kamal Tolba, the former Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
“Moreover, no one Arab state alone can undertake the tasks single-handedly. A serious beginning thus needs to be ma"
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