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245	1	0	_aMiddle East and North Africa : _bClimate, Culture, and Conflicts / _cedited by Eckart Ehlers, Katajun Amirpur.
246	3		_aClimate, Culture, and Conflicts
264		1	_aLeiden; _aBoston : _bBRILL, _c2021.
300			_a1 online resource.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aClimate and Culture ; _v6
490	1		_aAsian Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2021, ISBN: 9789004439979
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aForeword -- 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.
520			_aThe 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, followed by mythological interpretations and geo-archeological resp. historical analyses of the interrelationships and impacts of climate and other environmental factors on the development of ancient civilizations and cultures. The section "Present" addresses current conflict scenarios as a result of climate change, i.e. water scarcity, droughts, desertification and similar factors. The final section is concerned with potentials of international cooperation in pursuit of developing and ensuring sustainable energy resources and moves across different scales of environmental and religious education, from awareness raising to perspectives of best practice examples. Contributors are Katajun Amirpur, Helmut Brückner, Eckart Ehlers, Max Engel, Kerstin Fritzsche, Ursula Kowanda-Yassin, Tobias von Lossow, Ephraim Meir, Rosel Pientka-Hinz, Matthias Schmidt, and Franz Trieb.
588			_aDescription based on print version record.
650		0	_aHistory, Ancient.
700	1		_aEhlers, Eckart, _eeditor.
700	1		_aAmirpur, Katajun, _eeditor.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _tMiddle East and North Africa : Climate, Culture, and Conflicts, _dLeiden ; Boston : BRILL, 2021 _z9789004444454
830		0	_aClimate and Culture ; _v6.
830		0	_aAsian Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2021, ISBN: 9789004439979.
856	4		_zDOI: _uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004444973
999			_c11599 _d11599