Southern Iraqs Marshes

Author : Laith A. Jawad
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030662381
Total Pages : 815 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Southern Iraq's Marshes written by Laith A. Jawad and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-05-06 with total page 815 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mesopotamian marshes are important for economic, social, and biodiversity values and have been home to indigenous human communities for millennia. They are regarded as a legendary site. This multi-authored book contains chapters written by world-renowned experts in their field. Both basic and applied information are made available, making the book a must-have for a wide spectrum of users. For example, an understanding of the natural and the social aspects of the marshes, as described here, is an obvious prerequisite for a pest management plan in this area. Scholars interested in wetlands can use this book as a guide to compare different wetlands areas in Asia. The bibliography section contains valuable references to the marsh areas and research in the field. This book serves as an up-to-date comprehensive source of information on different aspects of the southern marshes of Iraq and is aimed at academic scholars, environmentalists, and decision makers.

Author : Laith A. Jawad
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9783030662400
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Southern Iraq's Marshes written by Laith A. Jawad and published by Springer. This book was released on 2022-05-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mesopotamian marshes are important for economic, social, and biodiversity values and have been home to indigenous human communities for millennia. They are regarded as a legendary site. This multi-authored book contains chapters written by world-renowned experts in their field. Both basic and applied information are made available, making the book a must-have for a wide spectrum of users. For example, an understanding of the natural and the social aspects of the marshes, as described here, is an obvious prerequisite for a pest management plan in this area. Scholars interested in wetlands can use this book as a guide to compare different wetlands areas in Asia. The bibliography section contains valuable references to the marsh areas and research in the field. This book serves as an up-to-date comprehensive source of information on different aspects of the southern marshes of Iraq and is aimed at academic scholars, environmentalists, and decision makers.

Author : Edward L. Ochsenschlager
Publisher : UPenn Museum of Archaeology
ISBN 13 : 9781931707749
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.4X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Iraq's Marsh Arabs in the Garden of Eden written by Edward L. Ochsenschlager and published by UPenn Museum of Archaeology. This book was released on 2004-11-10 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ethnoarchaeological fieldwork near a mound called al-Hiba, in the marshes of southern Iraq.

Author : Rory Stewart
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0151012350
Total Pages : 473 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Prince of the Marshes written by Rory Stewart and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2006 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description

Author : Sam Kubba
Publisher : Trans Pacific Press
ISBN 13 : 9780863723339
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Iraqi Marshlands and the Marsh Arabs written by Sam Kubba and published by Trans Pacific Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text is for those wishing to develop an understanding of a cultural legacy and lifestyle that survives today only as a fragmented cultural inheritance. The book illustrates how the economy and lives of the Ma'dan (Marsh Arabs) that spans over 5000 years remained similar to the ancient practices of their Sumerian forebears.

Author : Steve Lonergan
Publisher : American University in Cairo Press
ISBN 13 : 1649033265
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ghosts of Iraq's Marshes written by Steve Lonergan and published by American University in Cairo Press. This book was released on 2024-04-23 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The gripping history of the devastation and resurrection of the Marshes of Iraq, an environmental treasure of the Middle East, now a protected site The Mesopotamian Marshes in southern Iraq, once the largest wetland system on the planet, have been inhabited for thousands of years by the Ma‘dan, or Marsh Arabs, but they remain remote, isolated, and virtually unknown. In the early 1990s, the Saddam Hussein regime drained the Marshes and set out to destroy not only a critical ecosystem but a unique way of life as well. It stands as one of the greatest environmental and humanitarian disasters of the twentieth century. In the wake of the 2003 US invasion of Iraq, local residents destroyed the earthen dams built to divert water from the wetlands and the Marshes were reflooded. Their future, however, is in peril. The Ghosts of Iraq’s Marshes tells the history of the creation, destruction, and revitalization of the Marshes and their inhabitants against the backdrop of the dramatic events that have convulsed Iraq in the past fifty years. It follows the life of Jassim al-Asadi, an irrigation engineer who was jailed and tortured under Saddam Hussein and who subsequently dedicated his life to the reflooding and restoration of the Marshes. He eventually contributed to the Marshes being declared a UNESCO World Heritage site. Jassim is eminently relatable, and the stories of his life and other marsh dwellers are infused with pathos, tragedy, humor, and passion.

Author : Emma Nicholson
Publisher : Politico's Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Iraqi Marshlands written by Emma Nicholson and published by Politico's Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains 17 contributions addressing the many human and environmental dimensions of the assault on the Iraqi marshlands by the government of Saddam Hussein during the 1980s and 1990s. This volume is based on the second and final report on the Marshlands and Marsh Dwellers of Southern Mesopotamia.

Author : C. Max Finlayson
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9789400740006
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wetland Book written by C. Max Finlayson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-06-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Wetland Book is a comprehensive resource aimed at supporting the trans- and multidisciplinary research and practice which is inherent to this field. Aware both that wetlands research is on the rise and that researchers and students are often working or learning across several disciplines, The Wetland Book is a readily accessible online and print reference which will be the first port of call on key concepts in wetlands science and management. This easy-to-follow reference will allow multidisciplinary teams and transdisciplinary individuals to look up terms, access further details, read overviews on key issues and navigate to key articles selected by experts.

Author : Gavin Young
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571280978
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Return to the Marshes written by Gavin Young and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2011-10-20 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was the legendary traveller Wilfred Thesiger who first introduced Gavin Young to the Marshes of Iraq. Since then Young has been entranced by both the beauty of the Marshes and by the Marsh Arabs who inhabit them, a people whose lifestyle is almost unchanged from that of their predecessors, the Ancient Sumerians. On his return to the Marshes some years later Gavin Young found that the twentieth-century had rudely intruded on this lifestyle and that war was threatening to make the Marsh Arabs existence extinct. Return to the Marshes, first published in 1977, is at once a moving tribute to a unique way of life as well as a love story to a place and its people. 'A superbly written essay which combines warmth of personal tone, a good deal of easy historical scholarship and a talent for vivid description rarely found outside good fiction.' Jonathan Raban, Sunday Times

Author : Hesham M. El-Askary
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3030014401
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Advances in Remote Sensing and Geo Informatics Applications written by Hesham M. El-Askary and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-12-29 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume is based on the best papers accepted for presentation during the 1st Springer Conference of the Arabian Journal of Geosciences (CAJG-1), Tunisia 2018. The book compiles a wide range of topics addressing various issues by experienced researchers mainly from research institutes in the Mediterranean, MENA region, North America and Asia. Remote sensing observations can close gaps in information scarcity by complementing ground-based sparse data. Spatial, spectral, temporal and radiometric characteristics of satellites sensors are most suitable for features identification. The local to global nature and broad spatial scale of remote sensing with the wide range of spectral coverage are essential characteristics, which make satellites an ideal platform for mapping, observation, monitoring, assessing and providing necessary mitigation measures and control for different related Earth's systems processes. Main topics in this book include: Geo-informatics Applications, Land Use / Land Cover Mapping and Change Detection, Emerging Remote Sensing Applications, Rock Formations / Soil Lithology Mapping, Vegetation Mapping Impact and Assessment, Natural Hazards Mapping and Assessment, Ground Water Mapping and Assessment, Coastal Management of Marine Environment and Atmospheric Sensing.