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  1. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2014
    Morocco

    The assessment of freshwater resources in a drainage basin is not only dependent on its hydrologic parameters but also on the socio-economic system driving development in the watershed area; the socio-economic aspect, that is often neglected in hydrologic studies, is one of the novelties of this study. The aim of this paper is twofold: (1) presenting an integrated working methodology and (2) studying a local case of a North African watershed where scarce field data are available.

  2. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2014
    Algeria, Libya, Egypt, Western Asia, Northern Africa

    The Mediterranean region covers about 854 million ha, but only 118 million (or 14 per cent) are suitable for agricultural production. In North Africa and the Middle East (MENA), agricultural land covers about 5 per cent; in Egypt and Algeria, it occupies less than 4 per cent and, in Libya, less than 2 per cent of the total national land area. Across the Mediterranean region land use divides between natural pastures/rangelands (ca. 15 per cent), forests and woodlands (ca. 8 per cent), with the ca.

  3. Library Resource
    Peer-reviewed publication
    December, 2014
    Algeria, Sudan, Burkina Faso, Nigeria, Mauritania, Chad, Mali, Cameroon, Senegal, Central African Republic, South Sudan, Ethiopia, Niger, Eritrea, Africa

    Crown diameter and tree density were measured in 52 communities in the Sudan-Sahel using satellite imagery to determine the relationships between rainfall and distance from community center to crown size diameter and tree density. As distance from the community center increased, tree density and crown diameter decreased. As rainfall increased, tree density decreased while crown diameter increased. Distance from the community center is a proxy for age since urbanization and our results indicate that older parts of communities show longer and more consistent tree management.

  4. Library Resource
    August, 2014
    Egypt

    The objective of this paper is to
    present a succinct and up-to-date review of the urban sector
    in Egypt, with a focus on issues for which there is new
    insight or emerging government interest. The two main themes
    of the report are the challenges facing the urban sector and
    the policy implications at various levels of government.
    Some of the reports mains findings are: urbanization in
    Egypt takes on forms and processes which are not well

  5. Library Resource
    March, 2014
    Africa, Northern Africa, Western Asia, Global

    The paper presents the key objectives
    for the rehabilitation of historic centers or medinas in the
    Middle East and North Africa as elaborated by the World Bank
    on the basis of twenty years of past and present lending and
    technical assistance operations to the governments of the
    region. These are: 1) the conservation of the urban and
    cultural heritage; 2) the local economic development of the
    historic city; and 3) the improvement of the living

  6. Library Resource
    August, 2014
    Egypt

    The objective of this paper is to
    present a succinct and up-to-date review of the urban sector
    in Egypt, with a focus on issues for which there is new
    insight or emerging government interest. The two main themes
    of the report are the challenges facing the urban sector and
    the policy implications at various levels of government.
    Some of the reports mains findings are: urbanization in
    Egypt takes on forms and processes which are not well

  7. Library Resource
    April, 2014
    Africa, Northern Africa, Western Asia

    Disasters are increasing worldwide, with
    more devastating effects than ever before. While the
    absolute number of disasters around the world has almost
    doubled since the 1980s, the average number of natural
    disasters in Middle East and North Africa (MNA) has almost
    tripled over the same period of time. In the MNA, the
    interplay of natural disasters, rapid urbanization, water
    scarcity, and climate change has emerged as a serious

  8. Library Resource
    August, 2014
    Egypt

    The main objective of the Egypt Public
    Land Management Strategy is to provide the Government of
    Egypt (GOE) with practical and politically feasible policy
    recommendations to reform existing public land management
    policies and practices in the aim of improving the business
    climate in Egypt. This study is presented in two volumes:
    Volume one with the main policy note, supported by Volume
    two with background notes on access to public land by

  9. Library Resource
    December, 2014
    South Sudan, Sudan

    South Sudan is a new country of 10.5
    million people that has just emerged from conflict and still
    facing challenges with recovery and development. Although
    economic disparities, political exclusion and deprivation in
    the distribution of political and economic power between the
    northern and southern parts of then united Sudan were often
    tendered as the proximal causes of the conflict, at the
    center of the prolonged civil war was the struggle for

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