Middle East and North Africa : : climate, culture, and conflicts / / edited by Eckart Ehlers and Katajun Amirpur.
The volume Middle East and North Africa: Climate, Culture and Conflicts focuses on the intricate interrelationships between nature, culture and society in this ecologically, historically and politically fragile region. As such, it debates ideas of eco-theology from Muslim and Jewish perspectives, fo...
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| Superior document: | Climate and Culture ; Volume 6 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2021] 2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Climate and culture ;
Volume 6. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- List of Figures, Maps, and Tables
- List of Abbreviations
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction: The Mena Region: Climate, Culture, and Conflicts in the Middle East and North Africa
- Eckart Ehlers and Katajun Amirpur
- Part 1: Ideas
- 1 And We Shall Save the Earth: Muslim Environmental Stewards
- Katajun Amirpur
- 2 Wonder, Gratitude, and Justice as Ingredients for a Jewish Eco-Theology
- Ephraim Meir
- Part 2: Past
- 3 Holocene Climate Variability of Mesopotamia and its Impact on the History of Civilisation
- Helmut Brückner and Max Engel
- 4 Destructive Waters-Refreshing Waters: Ancient Near Eastern Aquatic Symbolism at the Dawn of History
- Rosel Pientka-Hinz
- 5 Deserts-Wind-Water: Strategies of Human Adaptations and Renewable Resources in Extremely Arid Environments. A Historical Retrospective
- Eckart Ehlers
- Part 3: Present
- 6 The Vanishing of Iran's Lake Urmia
- Matthias Schmidt
- 7 Water in the Middle East: Hotspots of Scarcity and Conflict
- Tobias von Lossow
- 8 Climate Change and the Emerging Information Societies in the Arab Region
- Kerstin Fritzsche
- Part 4: Prospects
- 9 DESERTEC: Europe-Middle East-North Africa Cooperation for Sustainable Energy
- Franz Trieb
- 10 Connecting Religion and the Environment in Islamic Education: Raising Awareness, Exploring Perspectives, and Defining Best Practice
- Ursula Kowanda-Yassin
- Bibliography
- Index.