Climate Change, Environmental Refugees, and Human Rights in the Middle East - Paperback

by Mahmood Monshipouri (Author)

This in-depth and readable text introduces students to the current and historical impacts of climate change on the region.
The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region has experienced more frequent droughts, heat waves, and other extreme weather events than the rest of the world. Flooding has forced human migration and displacement in Egypt, Iran, and Tunisia in 2020, while wildfires have spread in Lebanon, Syria, and Turkey. The author, a specialist in the MENA region, unpacks the implications of several developments that have triggered large-scale migration from rural to urban areas in the Middle East, and North Africa, and threaten to destabilize the region. These include, among other things, widespread famine, population displacement, and the growing decline of agricultural productivity.

Author Biography

MAHMOOD MONSHIPOURI is Professor of International Relations at San Francisco State University, USA, and Lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley, USA.