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Egypt is almost the size of Britain, France, and Germany combined, yet its nearly 70 million people are forced by geographic factors to live in an area no bigger than Belgium. Only four percent of the land can sustain cultivation and life. In this illuminating book, the authors describe the myriad problems facing Egypt. They look food scarcity, the effects of water and land shortage, the impact of globalization on Egypt's attempts to industrialize, population explosion, massive debt, unemployment, corruption, and Egypt's tourism industry, which is especially vulnerable to Islamist terrorism.
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Stephen Brichieri-Colombi is a consulting engineer and Senior Research Fellow at King’s College, University of London. He has 35 years’ experience in planning and implementing water resources development – including dams, irrigation and hydropower schemes, water supply, navigation and river planning – while living in more than thirty countries in Africa, Asia, the Middle East and South America. He was Chief Technical Advisor to the FAO on a basinwide Nile project and headed a team of advisors to the IndoBangladeshi Joint Rivers Commission. He lives in Italy.
INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY OF HUMAN GEOGRAPHY 1. Egypt: An Economic Geography Fouad N. Ibrahim and Barbara Ibrahim 978 1 86064 547 1 HB 978 1 86064 548 8 PB
2. The Middle East Water Question: Hydropolitics and the Global Economy Tony Allan 978 1 86064 582 2
3. Cultural Geography: A Critical Dictionary of Key Concepts David Atkinson, Peter Jackson, David Sibley & Neil Washbourne (eds) 978 1 86064 703 1
4. The Cognition of Geographic Space Rob Kitchin and Mark Blades 978 1 86064 704 8 HB 978 1 86064 705 5 PB
5. Picturing Place: Photography and the Geographical Imagination Joan M. Schwartz and James R. Ryan 978186064 751 2 HB 978186064 752 9 PB
8. Culture and Space: Conceiving a New Cultural Geography Joel Bonnemaison 978 1 86064 907 3 HB 978 1 86064 908 0 PB
9. Globalization and Identity: Development and Integration in a Changing World Alan Carling (ed.) 978 1 85043 848 9
10. Challenging the NGOs: Women, Religion and Western Dialogues in India Tamsin Bradley 978 1 84511 152 6
11. Traditional Buildings: A Global Survey of Structural Forms and Cultural Functions Allen Noble 978 1 84511 305 6
12. Geography and Vision: Seeing, Imagining and Representing the World Denis Cosgrove 978 1 85043 846 5
13. Muslims on the Map: A National Survey of Social Trends in Britain Serena Hussain 978 1 84511 471 8
6. Pink Ice: Britain and the South Atlantic Empire Klaus Dodds 978 1 86064 769 7 HB 978 1 86064 770 3 PB
14. The World Water Crisis: The Failures of Resource Management Stephen Brichieri-Colombi 978 1 84511 753 5
7. Human Capital: Population Economics in the Middle East I. Sirageldin (ed.)
15. High Places: Cultural Geographies of Mountains, Ice and Science Denis Cosgrove and Veronica della Dora (eds)
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THE W WORLD WATER CRISIS The Failurees of Resource Management
STEPHEN BRICHIERI-COLOMBI
To Peter, to Elizabeth
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