Southern Iraq's Marshes

Southern Iraq's Marshes
Author: Laith A. Jawad
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 815
Release: 2021-05-06
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3030662381

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.

Iraq's Marsh Arabs in the Garden of Eden

Iraq's Marsh Arabs in the Garden of Eden
Author: Edward L. Ochsenschlager
Publisher: UPenn Museum of Archaeology
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2004-11-10
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781931707749

Ethnoarchaeological fieldwork near a mound called al-Hiba, in the marshes of southern Iraq.

Diatoms in the Wetlands of Southern Iraq

Diatoms in the Wetlands of Southern Iraq
Author: Adil Y. Al-Handal
Publisher:
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2019-12-10
Genre:
ISBN: 9783443570583

The authors document the diatom species composition and ecology in the two major water impoundments of Southern Iraq, the Mesopotamian Marshes and Shatt Al-Arab River. Based on light and scanning electron microscopy investigations, 293 taxa are documented, including the description of three new species. The taxa treated herein were collected from a variety of habitats over a period of 15 years. Diatom assemblages consist of a mixture of freshwater, brackish water and marine taxa. Many diatom taxa that have disappeared in recent years are also documented in this volume. One reason for their disappearance is the high salinization of the Mesopotamian Marshes and Shatt Al-Arab River areas resulting from extremely low freshwater discharge from Euphrates and Tigris Rivers which allowed the seawater front to reach these regions. Species belonging to previously recorded genera such as Eunotia and Diatoma are no longer present in this area. Therefore, this work also is a documentary record of the diatom flora of the wetlands of Southern Iraq during the past 15 years and not only provides an insight into the present state of research but preserves records and findings from taxa no longer present in Southern Iraq, due to human driven ecological impacts.

The Prince of the Marshes

The Prince of the Marshes
Author: Rory Stewart
Publisher: HMH
Total Pages: 437
Release: 2007-02-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0156033003

An adventurous diplomat’s “engrossing and often darkly humorous” memoir of working with Iraqis after the fall of Saddam Hussein(Publishers Weekly). In August 2003, at the age of thirty, Rory Stewart took a taxi from Jordan to Baghdad. A Farsi-speaking British diplomat who had recently completed an epic walk from Turkey to Bangladesh, he was soon appointed deputy governor of Amarah and then Nasiriyah, provinces in the remote, impoverished marsh regions of southern Iraq. He spent the next eleven months negotiating hostage releases, holding elections, and splicing together some semblance of an infrastructure for a population of millions teetering on the brink of civil war. The Prince of the Marshes tells the story of Stewart’s year. As a participant he takes us inside the occupation and beyond the Green Zone, introducing us to a colorful cast of Iraqis and revealing the complexity and fragility of a society we struggle to understand. By turns funny and harrowing, moving and incisive, it amounts to a unique portrait of heroism and the tragedy that intervention inevitably courts in the modern age.

Return to the Marshes

Return to the Marshes
Author: Gavin Young
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Total Pages: 145
Release: 2011-10-20
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 0571280978

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

The Wetland Book

The Wetland Book
Author: C. Max Finlayson
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018-06-07
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9789400740006

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.

The Ilisu Dam and its Impact on the Mesopotamian Marshes of Iraq

The Ilisu Dam and its Impact on the Mesopotamian Marshes of Iraq
Author: Raquella Moea Thaman
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 98
Release: 2021-02-08
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9004458689

The Ilisu Dam and its Impact on the Mesopotamian Marshes of Iraq: Implications for the Future Directions of International Water Law provides an overview of the Tigris Euphrates River Basin legal regime and insights into future directions for the law.

Eden Again

Eden Again
Author: Suzanne Alwash
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2013-03-01
Genre:
ISBN: 9780988651432

Iraq & The Persian Gulf

Iraq & The Persian Gulf
Author: Naval Intelligence Division
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 749
Release: 2014-09-03
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1136892737

First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Advances in Remote Sensing and Geo Informatics Applications

Advances in Remote Sensing and Geo Informatics Applications
Author: Hesham M. El-Askary
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 329
Release: 2018-12-29
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 3030014401

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.