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Environmental and Natural Resource Management in the Middle East and North Africa

In: Prospects for Middle Eastern and North African Economies

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  • Bjorn Larsen

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The governments in the Middle East and North Africa have done little to plan for their natural resource and environmental futures. Given their large, nonrenewable oil and gas reserves and arid and semiarid climates, countries throughout the region require management plans that protect their natural and environmental resources while contributing to economic growth. More important, scarce freshwater resources, increasing air pollution, and large rural areas without adequate water and sanitation services, combined with the region’s rapid population growth and urbanization, pose serious health risks to the region’s populations. Policy and institutional

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  • Bjorn Larsen, 1998. "Environmental and Natural Resource Management in the Middle East and North Africa," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Nemat Shafik (ed.), Prospects for Middle Eastern and North African Economies, chapter 11, pages 288-305, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-26137-6_11
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-26137-6_11
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