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Record Nr.

UNINA9910342257903321

Autore

Abdallah Chadi

Titolo

Atlas of Lebanon : New Challenges

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Beyrouth, : Presses de l’Ifpo, 2019

ISBN

2-35159-549-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (128 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

AbdelsaterWassim

AchkarianVicken

AllèsChristèle

AshkarianVicken

BakhosWalid

BalancheFabrice

BonteMarie

BouchraTohme

CartierStéphane

DewaillyBruno

FaourGhaleb

FarahJihad

GemayelEmilio

GhochKhaled

GilletteClaire

GroupDictaphone

LibrisANR

MajedAmanie

MoujahedChristine

RaydanDima

ShabanAmin

VerdeilÉric

VerdeilEric

HamzéMouin

Soggetti

Geography

cartographie

migration

géopolitique

fragmentation

pauvreté

urbanisation

dégradation environnementale



inégalité régionale

changement climatique

mobilisation sociale

pénurie d'eau

pénurie éléctrique

crise des déchets

urbanisme

reconstruction

réfugié

gestion locale

décentralisation

cartography

refugees

geopolitics

regional inequalities

poverty

urbanization

environmental degradation

pollution

climate change

natural risks

water shortage

electricity shortage

solid waste crisis

city planning

social mobilization

local spatial management

decentralization

planning controversies

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

After fifteen years of reconstruction in a relatively peaceful environment spanning the years 1990 to 2004, Lebanon has experienced successive violent political events resulting from complex entangled internal and external struggles. The Syrian crisis and its political, economic and demographic consequences on Lebanon have increased these tensions. This atlas sheds light on these new challenges and adds new data that complete the analyses already published in the Atlas du Liban. Territoires et société (Atlas of Lebanon. Territories and Society) released in 2007 by the same research team. Some of its components are included in this edition. Beyond the international regional crisis and the population movements, it takes into account Lebanon’s socio-economic dimensions, the environmental issues linked to uncontrolled urbanization and to natural risks, as well as conflicts due to local



territorial management.   This atlas is the result of a collaborative endeavor between French and Lebanese researchers. It uses a geographical approach that puts in the foreground a spatial analysis of social and natural phenomena. Public sources are scarce in Lebanon, especially at the local scale. They are sometimes less reliable and difficult to access. It is particularly the case for the Lebanese census data, conversely data are abundantly available on the refugees population, which is less known than the population of refugees. International data help compare Lebanon to its neighbors. Thematic data produced by some ministries are helpful to provide a detailed view regarding specific domains. Analyses processed on aerial and satellite images have produced essential data on urbanization and environment. Local thematic fieldwork surveys have provided additional data. The book consists of seven chapters. The first one deals with the territorial state-building seen in the light of regional geopolitics, and emphasizes internal violence and the reemergence of militias and armed groups that…