Progressive Development To Mitigate the Negative Impact of Global Wa
The book is based on the results of the investigations of the authors in the semi-arid and arid regions (ASAR) of the globe. These investigations brought to the conclusion that the warming climate will cause the drying up of the water resources in these r
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Arie S. Issar (Ed.)
Progressive Development To Mitigate the Negative Impact of Global Warming on the Semi-arid Regions
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Editor Arie S. Issar Ben Gurion University of the Negev J. Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research Sede Boker Campus 84990, Israel [email protected]
ISSN 1863-5520 ISBN 978-3-642-10639-2 e-ISBN 978-3-642-10640-8 DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-10640-8 Springer Heidelberg Dordrecht London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2009943739 © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2010 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilm or in any other way, and storage in data banks. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the German Copyright Law of September 9, 1965, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer. Violations are liable to prosecution under the German Copyright Law. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
This book is dedicated to the memory of Professor Hugues Faure (1928–2003), a pioneer in many fields of science, a friend and a partner in developing the idea of utilization of fossil water found under the deserts. Hugues Faure was among the first scientists to investigate the impact of Quaternary climate changes on the ground water resources of the Sahara. In this connection, he was the first to discover and investigate the paleo-lakes of the Sahara. In 1968, he was appointed Professor at the Pierre and Marie Curie University of Paris. In 1969, he served as President of the Technical Committee of Geology at ORSTOM (“Office de la Recherche Scientifique d’Outre-Mer”) and in 1970 he became Director of the Laboratory for Quaternary Geology (LGQ). From 1982 to 1987, he served as President of the International Union for Quaternary Research (INQUA). All these activities in the cause of national and international science organizations did not impede his creative and incessant research and teaching in the field of Quaternary geology with special emphasize on the study of the carbon cycle during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) and the Holocene Epoch. Let his memory be blessed
Contents
Part I
Progressive Development – Human Society Can Mitigate the Negative Impacts of Aridization Due to Global Warming
1 The Past is the Key to the Future . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Arie S. Issar
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2 Present Global Warming, What Will Be Its Future Impact? . . . Arie S. Issar
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3 Malthusian and Neo-Malthusian Prophecies of Calamity . . . . . Arie S.
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