Water, Energy & Food Sustainability in the Middle East The Susta
This book provides a survey of technologies available to tackle the problems associated with climate change in the energy, water and food security nexus with a special focus on the Middle East. It is divided into three main sections. The energy Section co
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Water, Energy & Food Sustainability in the Middle East The Sustainability Triangle
Water, Energy & Food Sustainability in the Middle East
Adnan Badran Chief Editor
Sohail Murad • Elias Baydoun • Nuhad Daghir Editors
Water, Energy & Food Sustainability in the Middle East The Sustainability Triangle
Chief Editor Adnan Badran University of Petra Amman, Jordan Editors Sohail Murad Chemical and Biological Engineering Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago, IL, USA
Elias Baydoun Department of Biology American University of Beirut Beirut, Lebanon
Nuhad Daghir Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences American University of Beirut Beirut, Lebanon
ISBN 978-3-319-48919-3 ISBN 978-3-319-48920-9 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-48920-9
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Introduction and Scope Adnan Badran, Elias Baydoun, and Sohail Murad
The importance of climate change and its impact on society in general is clear from the proceedings of the recent 21st Conference of the Parties of the UNFCCC (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change) in Paris and adopted by consensus on 12 December 2015.1 The aim of the convention was as follows2: (a) Holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2 C above preindustrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 C above preindustrial levels, recognizing that this would significantly reduce the risks and impacts of climate change (b) Increasing the ability to adapt to the adverse impacts of climate change and foster climate resilience and
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