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Book/Printed Material Sustainable Development in the Jordan Valley : Final Report of the Regional NGO Master Plan

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Title

  • Sustainable Development in the Jordan Valley : Final Report of the Regional NGO Master Plan

Summary

  • This book summarizes the NGO Master Plan that provides a comprehensive program to rehabilitate the Lower Jordan River and its tributaries in Jordan, Israel and Palestine. It is a regional and civil society effort designed to promote the restoration of the valley's environmental and ecological values within a realistic financial and economic framework. The plan identifies 127 specific regional and national "interventions"(projects) until the year 2050, based on seven strategic planning objectives: pollution control, sustainable water management and river rehabilitation, sustainable agriculture, Jordan River basin governance, ecological rehabilitation, sustainable tourism and cultural heritage development, and urban and infrastructure development. The total investment value is 4.58 billion USD, the plan ranks the interventions and identifies their feasibility in a short, medium and long term investment cycles considering the political environment.

Names

  • Kool, Jeroen. author.

Created / Published

  • Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.

Contents

  • Introduction -- The Jordan Valley -- Projections And Objectives -- Meeting The Strategic Planning Objectives -- The Year 2050 -- Final Conclusions And Recommendations -- Colophon.

Headings

  • -  Cultural heritage
  • -  Development economics
  • -  Environmental management
  • -  Management
  • -  Nature conservation
  • -  Sustainable development
  • -  Tourism
  • -  Development Economics
  • -  Cultural Heritage
  • -  Nature Conservation
  • -  Sustainable Development
  • -  Tourism Management
  • -  Water Policy/Water Governance/Water Management

Notes

  • -  Description based on publisher-supplied MARC data.
  • -  Earth and Environmental Science (R0) (SpringerNature-43711)
  • -  Earth and Environmental Science (SpringerNature-11646)

Medium

  • 1 online resource (XLII, 239 pages 181 illustrations, 179 illustrations in color.)

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2019740781

Rights Advisory

Access Advisory

  • Unrestricted online access
  • Open Access

Online Format

  • image
  • epub

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Chicago citation style:

Kool, Jeroen. Author. Sustainable Development in the Jordan Valley: Final Report of the Regional NGO Master Plan. Cham: Springer International Publishing: Imprint: Springer, 2016. Image. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2019740781/.

APA citation style:

Kool, J. A. (2016) Sustainable Development in the Jordan Valley: Final Report of the Regional NGO Master Plan. Cham: Springer International Publishing: Imprint: Springer. [Image] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2019740781/.

MLA citation style:

Kool, Jeroen. Author. Sustainable Development in the Jordan Valley: Final Report of the Regional NGO Master Plan. Cham: Springer International Publishing: Imprint: Springer, 2016. Image. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2019740781/>.