Sustainable Redevelopment of the Iraqi Marshlands
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Book Description
The Iraqi marshlands housed a 3000+ year-old civilization until Saddam Hussein ruthlessly drained the marsh region following the 1991 uprising. Many of the insurgents fled to the marsh wetland region (between the Baghdad in the North and Basra in the South, and between the Tigris and Euphrates) when Saddam Hussein crushed the rebellion. Saddam then retaliated by draining the marsh areas, which not only housed a culture that had changed little over the centuries but which housed a rich and fragile ecosystem.
Sustaining the Iraqi Marshlands uses examples of restoration efforts around the globe to look at ways to best restore the Iraqi marshlands in order to make life there sustainable into the foreseeable future.
About the Author
Robert France is Associate Professor of Landscape Ecology at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design where he began teaching in the Fall of 1997. France has authored numerous papers on the ecology and conservation biology of organism from bacteria and algae to birds and whales, on research topics from environmental pollution to theoretical biodiversity, and in locations ranging from the High Arctic to the tropics. France is a recently appointed series editor for Lewis/CRC Press on the topic Integrative Studies in Water Management and Land Development.
Sustainable Redevelopment of the Iraqi Marshlands,France Robert,Routledge,0415952255,Development - Sustainable Development,Earth Sciences - General,Earth Sciences - Geography,Environmental Science,Environmental Studies,Life Sciences - Ecology - Ecosystems,Science,Science/Mathematics,Conservation of wildlife & habitats,Science / Environmental Science
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